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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 ...

Skyring names new head of distribution

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
Skyring Asset Management has appointed a new head of distribution. Sam Benjamin joins Skyring from Smarter Money Investments, where he was an investment consultant. Prior to that, he was a regional sales manager in New South Wales and Western Australia ...

Chief economist update: This time is different

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... Black Monday 1987. This time it's different again for there weren't the usual chorus of "expert" naysayers predicting the sky to fall. Recall Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini's forecast back in the midst of the global financial crisis in 2009? "My main scenario ...

Legalsuper appoints new client service manager

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
The former head of compliance at Fitzpatricks Private Wealth is taking on a new role at legalsuper. Ragnhild Sky joins as client service manager for the ACT region. Before Fitzpatricks, she was a senior compliance manager at St George and a senior financial ...

Soaring education costs require financial plan: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Research points to Sydney as the most expensive place to send children to school and in some cases the cost of tuition is exceeding average house prices - a vital investment decision by any means. The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) Planning for ...

Blue Sky scores major pension fund mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has entered into an agreement with one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, which oversees about $140 billion in assets. Blue Sky explained that subject to regulatory approval by the Foreign Investment Review ...

Un-Keynesian

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... America need this kind of fiscal largesse at this time in its economic cycle... when almost all indicators are pointing to the sky? That's so un-Keynesian. Just as Greece was required to tighten its fiscal expenditure when its economy was in recession ...

No big deal or not yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... from 3.07% at the start of 2017-- one that would further tighten liquidity conditions in the country and extrapolated to "the sky is falling". Yet, financial markets didn't see this as a big deal... unless China's stock market continues to head south ...

White-collar crime penalties to skyrocket

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
ASIC could soon impose substantial civil penalties and lengthy prison time for financial services corporations and employees guilty of misconduct, a review of its enforcement powers has found. The final paper of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) is ...

Super FUM up 10pct to $2.3tn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
Superannuation savings climbed 10% in 2016-17 to reach $2.3 trillion, with performance income accounting for almost all the flows, according to figures released by APRA this week. Within segments, not-for-profit (NFP) funds climbed 12% to $983 billion ...