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BT Wrap Advantage rebates $1.8m

... solutions in a previous Financial Standard interview. The participating fund managers are APN, Australian Unity, BlackRock, Challenger, Colonial First State, Deutsche, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Lazard, Legg Mason, Portfolio Partners, T. Rowe Price ...

Challenger takes part in $9.5bn infrastructure buy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
An international consortium including Challenger, Access Capital Advisers and UBS have acquired UK utility, Southern Water Capital, from the Royal Bank of Scotland Group for $9.5 billion. Challenger has invested $225 million into the Challenger Infrastructure ...

Challenger FP strengthens operations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
Challenger has appointed Sara Nathan to manager of operations and assurance, Pas Bueti to head of advice support services and Lily Roche to business program manager. Andrew Alcock, chief operating officer, said the new appointments were a critical part ...

Australian managers clock $650bn

... Asset Management and Perennial Investment rounding up the top 10. Further down the chain but still making the cut were Challenger Financial (ranked 352), Maple-Brown Abbott (353), Insurance Australia Group (IAG), Suncorp Metway (409), Balanced Equity ...

Challenger FP revs up Synergy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Challenger's financial planning arm has invested in additional hardware and software to increase the processing power of its platform business, Synergy Capital Management, by up to ten times To be completed in June 2008, new hardware has been installed ...

Austock appoints new head

Financial services provider Austock Group has appointed Alan Sheen, a former chief investment officer at Challenger as the head of the group's asset management arm. Austock's chief executive officer Tim Boyle is banking on Sheen's experience and knowledge ...

Bridges over fresh waters

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
Bridges Financial Services, a financial planning business with nearly $17 billion in funds under advice (FUA), has looked to new products in the market to increase its fund manager line up by more than 10 per cent. A subsidiary of ASX 200 investment ...

Challenger teams up with Colony

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Challenger Financial Services has signed a partnership agreement with US-based real estate funds specialist Colony Capital in a deal that involves $64 million in Challenger share options. As part of the partnership, Colony bought an option of over 57.1 ...

Challenger rejigs platform team

Challenger's financial planning division has made a raft of fresh appointments in its platform distribution team, hiring new staff who were previously at BT, Asgard and Credit Suisse. Pia Zulueta, formerly at Asgard Wealth Solutions, is the new head ...

MetLife and Challenger finalise deal

... Following delays, MetLife Insurance has finally received court approval to transfer its annuity and pension business to Challenger, effective end of this month. "The sale of our investment business completes a major phase of our strategic re-positioning," ...