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David Ellis
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Challenger’s Strong Annuity Growth Starts to Slow; FVE AUD 12.80 Unchanged

Despite the third-quarter fiscal 2018 market update confirming a slowing trend, we are confident the long-term growth outlook for no-moat Challenger is intact. Our AUD 12.80 fair value estimate is unchanged. The stock is trading 15% below our valuation and screens undervalued. We believe the 25% share price fall since Dec. 31, 2017 is overdone as the firm’s strong growth profile is broadly unchanged. Listed asset manager peers have suffered similar price declines as global equity market jitters ...
Underlying
Challenger Limited

Challenger is an investment manager with offices in Australia and London. Co.'s operating segments are: Life and Funds Management (FM). The Life segment comprises Challenger Life Company Limited (CLC), a provider of annuities and guaranteed retirement income products, and Accurium Pty Limited, a provider of self-managed superannuation fund actuarial certificates. The FM segment comprises Fidante Partners and Challenger Investment Partners (CIP). Fidante Partners provides administration and distribution services. CIP develops and manages assets under Co.'s brand for CLC and third party institutional investors. The investments managed by CIP are mainly in fixed income and commercial property.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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David Ellis

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