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

Search Results

Showing 221 - 230 of 444 results for "Alternative investments"

Blue Sky directors buy stake in Alternatives Fund IPO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Three Blue Sky Alternative Investments non-independent board members will invest at least $1.35 million in aggregate through the initial public offering of the manager's Alternatives Fund. Blue Sky chairman John Kain, Alexander McNab and Andrew Champion's ...

Blue Sky launches first listed investment company

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has launched an initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to $100 million to list Australia's first diversified, alternatives-focused Listed Investment Company (LIC) on the ASX. With the listing, the company is aiming ...

Risk management top concern for sovereign wealth funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... managing emerging market volatility. Meanwhile 25% expressed concern over the management of complexity around alternative investments. The majority of respondents - 71% - said that they were having difficulty keeping up with regulatory changes in different ...

Blue Sky Water appoints investment director

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
Blue Sky Water Partners, a division of Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited, has appointed Michael Blakeney as investment director. Blue Sky said Blakeney brings considerable management and investment experience across a range of agricultural enterprises ...

Blue Sky acquires hedge fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has acquired all of the shares in hedge fund manager Investment Science. The hedge fund has approximately $70 million in assets under management and a strong investment track record. Blue Sky confirmed that key Investment ...

SSFS invests in Standard Life alternative fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... Damian Graham highlighted that the move is aimed at diversifying the fund's portfolio. "We are adopting alternative investments as part of a different approach to managing and limiting downside risk," Graham said. SSFS is a financial planning group owned ...

Blue Sky hires ex-Certitude exec to run new office

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... behalf of domestic and international asset managers spread across all asset classes with a key focus on alternative investments. Blue Sky national relationship manager Vaughan Henry said Siapantas was the standout candidate for the new role. "Laz's network ...

Blue Sky on track to reach $500m by June

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Listed fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported a 31% increase in underlying income to $7.2 million for the half year to 31 December. As with prior half-year results, the Brisbane-based manager reported a small underlying profit of ...

SunGard launches a faster STP processor

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... Connect, the new processing solution, has been designed to speed up straight-through-processing (STP) for alternative investments. Asset Arena Data Connect will advocate the scheduling and monitoring of data processing increasing STP and transparency ...

Blue Sky targets mandate wins with $19m capital raise

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has raised nearly $19 million in the first stage of a capital raising program. Blue Sky said it will use the funds to provide additional capital for ongoing co-investment in its managed funds and to demonstrate balance ...