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The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... swept the financial market world last week right through to Monday has left and gone... and once more, the sun shines and the sky's blue. This means that the Fed can go ahead and lift, right Virginia? More so after last night's re-calibration revealing ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... "More than $70 billion wiped from Australian stock market" (SBS) and other headlines impressing the point that the Australian sky is falling. They refer to the S&P/ASX 200 index's 4.1% slump yesterday -- biggest one-day fall since January 2009 (that's ...

Blue Sky delivers 68% profit as alternatives rally

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported record profit and assets under management as investors find growth in alternatives. The manager reported an underlying net profit after tax of $10.4 million for the year to 30 June 2014, 68% up from $6.2 ...

Super fund goes nuts for returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... agricultural investment to be the last. First State Super was advised in the transaction by Lander & Rogers Lawyers and Blue Sky Water Partners, a division of Blue Sky Alternative Investments. Select Harvests was advised by PPB Advisory and Minter El ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... point the finger on China - its slowing growth, its manipulation of the stock market, its currency devaluation - for why the sky is falling on financial markets, the root of all this evil is the rise and rise of the US dollar - prompted, of course, by ...

Infrastructure deals fall as valuations skyrocket

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
The average deal size for infrastructure investments has risen by 56% in the last three years, according to Preqin research. The average deal size in 2015 is roughly $852 million, compared to $546 million in 2013. Perhaps as a result, the total number ...

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
... more nuanced understanding of what "alternatives" actually are. "The human brain likes to put things into buckets," says Blue Sky Alternative Investments chief investment officer Alexander McNab, "but the reality is that there are very different risk/return ...

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 ...

Aged care advice enquiries skyrocket

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
Rising aged care costs have left consumers confused and enquiries to advisers have "skyrocketed" recently, Australian Unity Personal Financial Services head of financial advice Craig Meldrum said. Speaking to Financial Standard, Meldrum said that since ...