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Macquarie and CBA in global top 100

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... interest in alternative investments with some investors increasing their strategic asset allocation targets to private equity, real estate and infrastructure in the search for income returns, potential inflation linkage and diversification benefits. ...

AXA IM to launch impact fund in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... Christensen said that interest in impact investing is growing and that these strategies have a place within super fund's private equity allocation, but also as a standalone asset class. "Over time we will see that some superannuation schemes will follow ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... million for the Starlight Children's Foundation, was the pinnacle of a year-long training program in which the private equity and water investment expert clocked up hundreds of kilometres in the pool and the ocean. "The professionalism around the two-year ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... inflation because some of those companies are so cheap at the moment." Assets such as real estate, infrastructure and private equity are providing this stability at the moment, Buckley says. Currency will become another key issue once rates rise. Australian ...

iSelect CEO departs amid takeover bid

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... insurance broker iSelect has announced the departure of its chief executive and confirmed a buyout proposal from a private equity firm. Outgoing chief executive Alex Stevens has left the company after 18 months in the role; in his place, iSelect commercial ...

Russell Investments sold to TA Associates

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... orientation to multi-asset and solutions investing, formed a major part in its US$1.15 billion sale. Global growth private equity firm TA Associates announced on Friday it had entered an agreement to acquire Russell Investments from London Stock Exchange ...

Blue Sky scratches head lice from portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... venture-backed companies that are delivering great results." Another division of Blue Sky Alternative Investments, Blue Sky Private Equity has acquired a portfolio of 10 suburban hotels in Adelaide. The business will be rebranded as GM Hotels and will ...

Sunsuper foresees independent director shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... that he spent 13 years as an executive director at Macquarie Bank, where he jointly founded the organisation's private equity business, Macquarie Direct Investment. Traill is currently the chair of Goodstart Early Learning, the SVA Leadership Council ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... (26.5%), cash (21.6%), fixed income (9.5%) and alternatives (11.65%). Of HNW's alternative investments, 23.6% is in private equity. The report surveyed wealthy Australians' preferred "investments of passion" and found that their highest allocation, 27.3% ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has made a multi-million investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was ...