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Challenger recycles capital

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Less than a year ago Challenger Financial Services Group raised more than $260 million from a couple of optimistic, offshore investors, one of whom paid what now looks like a fortune for nothing more than an option to buy shares in the company. Now ...

Pentafin beefs up IT team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
Pentafin has appointed US expat Joe Vetto and ex-Challenger operations support manager Karen Chim to its IT team. Joe Vetto, the former co-founder and vice-president of product development for Seattle-based X6 Technologies which is now Minecode, has ...

Pentafin joins personal super crowd

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... Corporate Superannuation. Pentafin developed the product's superannuation administration capability in a joint project with Challenger Financial Services Group.

Challenger JV opens EM infrastructure doors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Challenger Financial Services and global trading company Mitsui & Co have signed a joint venture agreement to develop an infrastructure focussed investment management business in Singapore and launch an emerging markets infrastructure fund. Mitsui & ...

Northward banks on top stocks

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... MasterKey investment menu. The new funds consist of the MLC Diversified Debt Fund, Northward Australian Equities Fund, Challenger Select Australian Shares Fund, Antares Lodestar Absolute Return Trust - Australian Shares, Platinum Asia Fund, BlackRock ...

AXA buys Challenger's Genesys

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
AXA's influence in Australia's financial advice industry is set to escalate with today's $150 million purchase of Challenger's financial planning business Genesys Wealth Advisers and proprietary platform Synergy. The deal, which is expected to be finalised ...

Macq Prof Series appoints head of retail

... Adrian Stewart as its new head of retail distribution. Stewart was previously state manager for New South Wales with Challenger, with whom he worked for five years. He said the decision to join was easy due to the quality of fund managers at Macquarie. ...

Falkiner heads to Double Bay

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... brings over 15 years experience to Falkiner, and had previously worked at Fidelity Asia Services, Macquarie Bank, ipac, Challenger and BT Funds Management. Falkiner also recruited Peter Chen as fund accountant, who will provide day to day analytical ...

Planner To-Do list post Budget

... could do well by starting their client reviews on three major changes singled out by technical advice experts from Challenger and MLC. Challenger's head of technical services Alex Denham said planners need to review recommendations relating to capital ...

Buy side problems FIX'd

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008