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Alternative investment manager partners with VC firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... York-based early stage venture capital firm Scout Ventures for a stake in a proposed US$50 million fund. Auctus Alternative Investments will acquire up to 10% economic interest in the Scout Ventures Fund III, spending no more than $1 million on the investment. ...

Sovereign investors change tack: Invesco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... interviewed 126 central bank and sovereign wealth managers. Asia Pacific sovereign wealth investors are eyeing alternative investments and picking active management strategies over passive, the study showed. However, Western sovereign wealth investors ...

Alternatives specialist boosts leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
An alternative investments firm has added to its distribution capabilities and made four appointments to its small team. Brookvine is expanding as the firm experiences greater interest in its alternative and niche investment strategies. Former CQS head ...

Blue Sky short seller launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
One of the men behind the US hedge fund which successfully shorted Blue Sky Alternative Investments is starting an activist investment fund of his own. Former Glaucus Research director and chief investment officer at Glaucus Investments, Soren Aandahl ...

Blue Sky revaluation sees asset prices drop

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has completed an independent revaluation for 25% of its fee-earning assets under management, and it is expected to reduce FY18 net profit after tax by $7 million. The first phase of Blue Sky's total portfolio revaluation ...

Volatility divides investors: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... to rising rates, respondents are rethinking fixed-income portfolios, managing durations and turning to alternative investments to generate income. More than half (58%) reported their organisation is increasingly using alternatives to replace fixed income ...

Blue Sky chair steps down amid business restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments' chair will step down at the annual general meeting and the group chief investment officer role will be made redundant as part of an overhaul of the company's business model and structure. Any executive directors other ...

Blue Sky hits back at hedge fund, requests ASIC intervention

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments resumed trading on the ASX and has requested ASIC investigate the accusations made by a US hedge fund - and associated short-selling - last week. Glaucus Research Group argued "Blue Sky is significantly overstating its ...

US hedge fund slams Blue Sky

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
A prominent US hedge fund is going short on Blue Sky Alternative Investments in light of what it perceives as exaggerations in the Australian manager's fee-earning assets under management. Glaucus Research Group argued while Blue Sky claims to have ...

Janus Henderson portfolio manager joins Aussie boutique

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... Whiting and fellow senior investment analyst Steve Nicholls. Before Janus Henderson, Rosenbloom was head of alternative investments at Perennial, an executive director at Wallara Asset Management and a research analyst at ANZ Securities. "David's career ...