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Nearly $12bn leaves Challenger in March quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2026
Challenger saw $11.7 billion leave its funds management business in the third quarter, of which $3.4 billion came from negative market movements driven by the Middle East conflict. The lion's share of $8 billion were net outflows while the balance of ...

PIMCO hires former Global X sales lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
Kanish Chugh, former head of distribution at Global X, has scored a top sales role at PIMCO Australia. PIMCO confirmed Chugh's appointment as head of ETF sales. The hire comes eight months after he joined the asset manager as a senior vice president ...

Challenger posts record annuity sales

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
Challenger reported Total Life sales for the first quarter reached $2.8 billion, primarily driven by record annuity sales, contributing to substantial growth in its book value. The investment manager said annuity sales jumped by 17% to $2.1 billion ...

Two top Global X executives exit

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2023
Two senior executives leading distribution and investment strategy respectively have exited Global X ETFs amid a local restructure. Head of distribution Kanish Chugh has been made redundant just shy of 10 years of tenure. Chugh started out as a business ...

Challenger Life books record annuity sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
Challenger Life reaped the benefits of regulatory reforms in the 2023 financial year and a greying population as retail and institutional investors alike increasingly turn to retirement income products. Annuity sales stemming from the domestic retail ...

Aware Super, Challenger partner for DB solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
Challenger will provide Aware Super with a $619 million group lifetime annuity policy to de-risk some of its lifetime pension liabilities. Challenger was selected by the fund, saying it is well placed to meet the needs of Aware Super's defined benefit ...

Consumer advocates criticise advice review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
The Consumer Action Law Centre has concerns that the Quality of Advice Review draft terms of references forget Commissioner Hayne's findings on conflicted remuneration. In the centre's submission on the review's draft terms of references, it argued ...

Platform co-founder departs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
WealthO2's co-founder and chief executive has suddenly departed the company as two directors are appointed to the board. Shannon Bernasconi has left WealthO2 after six years at the helm. She previously left her role as managing director of Calastone ...

OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
OnePath Life is repaying customers to the tune of $35 million due to poor telephone sales practices. Following an ASIC intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling ...

Ignition Advice appoints deputy chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
Ignition Advice has named a new deputy chair and non-executive director adding to the firm's global team. Russell Scrimshaw will join the board bringing years of experience in senior executive and company director roles. Scrimshaw was previously deputy ...
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