CHALLENGER

People & Products

Scott Hartley, AMP Australian Wealth Management chief executive, has been appointed to the Financial Services Council board of directors along with Challenger executive, ...

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Financial planning

The changes in advice-led business model are forcing asset managers to respond to a growing direct market....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds and product providers creating retirement income products should look to create effectively default products as products requiring advice will not be...

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Expert Analysis

With Australians living longer than ever, writes Aaron Minney, retirement plans focused on a life expectancy of 85 are looking out of touch....

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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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