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Funds management
Challenger platforms are expected to continue to benefit from industry concerns around wealth management....
People & Products
Brian Benari will retire as chief executive of Challenger and be replaced by Richard Howes....
People & Products
Stanford Brown has hired a senior business development manager as demand for managed accounts grows. ...
Financial planning
HUB24 has posted record net inflows for the first quarter of $638 million and representing a 19.3 per cent growth....
People & Products
Challenger and HUB24 have announced that the former’s annuities should be available to advisers and clients on the platform by the 2019 financial year....
Superannuation
Seventy per cent of Australians over 50 worry about the potential for another global financial crisis, according to the latest National Seniors Australia survey....
Tools & guides
Funding aged care is one of the biggest obstacles advisers’ older clients may face. Sean Howard outlines strategies that may help ease the burden....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have cautioned against allowing a retirement income covenant trumping advice, but Challenger ...
People & Products
The insurance giant and global fixed-income manager have teamed up to enter the retirement income solutions space, posing a competitive threat to annuities provider Chall...
Financial planning
Challenger has reported lower total life sales in the March, driven by a lower Japanese reinsurance quota share....
Tools & guides
Michael McLean looks at the technicalities of aged care, how to advise clients in need of it and why demand for it is growing....
Superannuation
Challenger’s Yash Sodhi’s ‘Smarter Super’ proposal has won him the 2017 Financial Services Council Future Leaders Award....
Funds management
Challenger’s first quarter 2018 update showed an increase in AUM, driven by its life and funds management businesses....
Financial planning
AMP has expanded its wealth management adviser portal to allow adviser and customer access to Challenger annuities....
Financial planning
Utilising platform, planner and industry funds distribution channels, Challenger Limited has recorded a 21 per cent increase in full-year profit on the back of record ann...
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