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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 ...

Private equity shift keeping investors busy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
The private equity market is busier than it was 18 months ago and there are opportunities to deploy capital sensibly in the market, according to IFM Investors head of private capital, Steven Lipchin. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... opportunities to add value, to turn an investment into a quality asset and to achieve value creation this way." The fund's private equity allocation has increased from 8.3% last year to 10.8% and there is still room to increase that. "The allocation ...

Aberdeen launches $700m liquid alternatives fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... grounds, the desire is to expand exposure to alternatives because they've been very successful," he said. "Our private equity program, for example, is 4% ahead of listed markets over 15 years and our portfolio is about 5% ahead of cash after fees since ...

Blue Sky delivers 68% profit as alternatives rally

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... its inception in 2006, compared to the 5.4% delivered by its benchmark. Its best performing asset class has been private equity, which returned 20.5%, 11.9% above the benchmark. The second best performing investment was private real estate, which returned ...

Blue Sky flushes dunnies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has sold its majority stake in portable toilet hire company Viking Rentals, to which it felt a special attachment because it was one of its first investments. Blue Sky has sold the stake to an Adelaide-based investment group ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... in alternatives investment. He learned that allocation to alternative assets - in particular, the two pillars of private equity and hedge funds - was rapidly increasing across the whole US institutional sector. "We've had US institutional allocations ...

Australian funds turning to bourgeoning Asian REITs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... projects, Chinese commercial developers are becoming natural sellers to REITs. Thirdly, a host of successful Asia-based private equity funds, which were established in 2006 and 2007 are reaching the end of their life and will look to sell to REITs to ...

Blue Sky acquires majority stake in HPS

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has partnered with Partners Group to acquire a majority stake in hospital pharmacy services business HPS. Founded in 1975, HPS provides pharmaceutical products and services to private and public hospitals, oncology facilities ...