CHALLENGER

People & Products

WealthO2 has appointed Phil Anderson as national business development manager to meet growing demand for the company’s adviser platform alternative....

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People & Products

KPMG has appointed Pauline Blight-Johnston as life insurance sector lead partner in its actuarial and financial risk practice....

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People & Products

Ausbil Investment Management has announced the appointment of Vicki Gemisis as chief financial officer....

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Features

As future retirees weigh up their options on how to best distribute their post-retirement income, Chris Dastoor finds that annuities offer part of a greater option to mai...

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People & Products

Investment management firm Challenger has announced its range of annuities is available via Netwealth, expanding the firm’s distribution network. ...

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Financial planning

Challenger Funds Management chief executive, Ian Saines is to retire from the business, prompting the search for a successor....

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People & Products

Challenger has announced its full range of fixed term and lifetime annuities are available via HUB24’s investment and superannuation platform....

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Financial planning

Challenger has reported that a 13 per cent drop in its annuity sales was the result of lower Japanese sales and disruption to the Australian retail financial advice marke...

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Life/Risk

Challenger has announced the expansion of its relationship with MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings to support its growth both in Australia and internationally....

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Funds management

Two new partners have signed up to Future IM/Pact, a campaign launched last year aimed at attracting more diversity to investment management, bringing the number signator...

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Tools & guides

Minh Ly breaks down the new means testing rules for lifetime income streams, which have now been legislated by Parliament....

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Financial planning

Challenger Limited has confirmed the degree to which the negative perception of advisers generated by the Royal Commission is hitting its bottom line....

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Financial planning

Challenger Limited has hit choppy waters with challenging market conditions dragging on its half-year profit....

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Financial planning

New research has pointed to financial planners seeing themselves as being more comfortable as asset allocators rather than stock-pickers and leaning towards goals-based a...

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People & Products

Challenger has looked internally naming Angela Murphy as the executive to replace Richard Howes as he steps up to the chief executive role next year....

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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