Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 151 - 160 of 444 results for "Alternative investments"

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 ...

MLC, ANU boost alternatives strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... to replace fixed income as interest rates rise and the 30-year bond bull market comes to a close. While alternative investments can present a range of portfolio risks, three-in-four (74%) investors said potential returns of illiquid investments are worth ...

Super funds embrace crowdsourced cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... organisations vulnerable to a growing number of data breaches and cyber-attacks," Hostplus said. "These alternative investments play an important role in Hostplus' fully-diversified portfolio and align strongly with our long-term investment strategy." ...

CareSuper appoints investment manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... portfolio solutions. Before that, he was managing director of Frank Russo & Associates Consulting, director of alternative investments at Russell Investments, senior analyst at Access Capital Advisers and senior portfolio manager at EquipSuper. Russo's ...

Mercer increases Japanese footprint via acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... investors have access to world class delegated investment solutions, including a spectrum of traditional and alternative investments, research and advice capabilities." Investing in performance-enhancing solutions to deliver positive absolute returns ...