Challenger Investment Management
challengerim.com.au Direct investor
Challenger Investment Management is a credit-focused investment manager within the ASX-listed Challenger Group, managing funds and mandates across public and private credit markets. It invests for Challenger's own balance sheet alongside institutional, wholesale and retail clients.
Challenger Investment Management is an asset manager headquartered in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2005. It invests directly in companies, in public credit, private credit, asset-backed securities and real estate lending. A$17 billion under management, as it reports.
“Challenger Investment Management (Challenger IM) is a team of value investors, rotating between public and private credit markets according to where we see the best opportunities, whilst always maintaining discipline around price and effective risk management.”
— Challenger Investment Management, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Asset manager
- Stage
- Not stated
- Invests in
- Australia, Europe, US, UK, Canada
- Sectors
- public credit, private credit, asset-backed securities, real estate lending, acquisition finance, whole loans, corporate credit
- Founded
- 2005
- Assets under management
- A$17 billion
Team, as Challenger Investment Management publishes it
- Victor Rodriguez Executive General Manager
- Stephen Martin Head of Multi-Sector Credit
- Gerard Hargraves Head of Real Estate Lending
- Sid Kumar Head of Acquisition Finance
- Chris Whitcombe Head of European & US ABS
- Justin Voller Head of Australia & NZ ABS
- Matthew Moore Head of Servicing
- Leila Donnachy Head of Capital Markets and Whole Loans
- Brent Stephan General Manager
- Franz Baumann Director
- Pei Leong Director
- Shane Ugo Director – Credit
Names and roles exactly as listed on challengerim.com.au. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Challenger Investment Management publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.challengerim.com.auname, thesis_quote, status, confidence
- https://www.challengerim.com.au/about-us/is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, founded, aum
- https://www.challengerim.com.au/invest-now/invests_in_geographies
- https://www.challengerim.com.au/about-us/approach/sectors
- https://www.challengerim.com.au/about-us/team/people
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