CHALLENGER

Financial planning

Although the approaching retirement income covenant will explicitly apply to superannuation trustees, it will be impossible for advisers to pretend like nothing has chang...

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Funds management

Challenger repositioned its investment portfolio during the pandemic which included holding higher levels of cash and liquid assets and enhanced its business risk setting...

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Funds management

Athene Holding has acquired a minority stake in Challenger for $720 million as part of its growth strategy....

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People & Products

Challenger has appointed Angela Murphy as the chief executive of its Life business....

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Funds management

Challenger’s group assets under management rose by 13% in the first half of the 2021 financial year, with the company declaring a dividend of 9.5 cents per share....

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Funds management

Challenger has announced that it has appointed Equity Trustees as note trustee for its Capital Notes 3, a perpetual convertible security which has raised $385 million. ...

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Superannuation

Challenger’s chair, Jeremy Cooper, is “ambivalent” about the superannuation guarantee increase while Cbus’ Robbie Campo says the increase will benefit those that are seei...

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Funds management

Challenger has reported 4% growth in group assets under management for the three months to the end of September to $89 billion. ...

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Funds management

Former Challenger boss, Brian Benari, will head up a new financial services player backed by Magellan and Barclays....

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People & Products

The payments of the new guaranteed floating rate lifetime annuity will be linked to the RBA cash rate....

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Financial planning

Challenger has reported a $0.9 billion decline in annuity sales as a result of the restructure of the bank-aligned advice network, as the firm issues its full year result...

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People & Products

Wendy Cox has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of finance and HR, while Lata McNulty has been promoted to the newly-created role of chief risk officer by ...

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Financial planning

Interest rates may be low and dividend payments doubtful, but a Money Management Retirement Incomes webinar panel has agreed there is a continuing and necessary role for ...

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Financial planning

Questions are being asked about whether advisers are facing greater risks of being perceived to breach the code of ethics because of the complexities inherent in advising...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are facing a dilemma with annuities still a core retirement income option but, with a long period of low interest rates being predicted, they face some...

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