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OneVentures Innovation and Growth fund raises $60m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Australian venture capital firm OneVentures has announced the first close of its Innovation and Growth Fund II after raising $60 million. The fund - which invests in healthcare, education, mobile, media, cloud computing and data, sensors and robotics ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... management team sat and listened for an hour to the CEO of the world's leading Bitcoin exchange in the premises of his venture capital sponsor in Silicon Valley. "We've got to open our minds to it, and in my mind, that starts with the importance of the ...

Don't ditch the RET, instos tell Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... Future Fund or QSuper. A number of industry bodies are on the list, including the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL), reflecting the fact that the majority of renewable energy investment opportunities are in unlisted ...

Blue Sky reveals asset allocation of first alternatives LIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... million raised for its Alternatives Access Fund into a range of alternative assets including private equity and venture capital, water and agriculture, a hedge fund and private real estate. The Listed Investment Company (LIC) is Australia's only listed ...

PE outperforms ASX and super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) has released figures they claim confirm that private equity and venture capital funds in Australia at end 2013 outperformed the ASX across most major time periods. The analysis ...

Blue Sky launches first listed investment company

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... Blue Sky's managed funds across the company's four alternative asset classes of real assets, private equity and venture capital, private real estate and hedge funds. According to Blue Sky's investment director Alexander McNab, overseas investors have ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... dashboard will be, has so far received only mixed responses. Yasser El-Ansary, chief executive of the Australian venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL), said, "The proposed new disclosure framework would not have delivered more meaningful information ...

Portfolio disclosure's unintended consequences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... Australian businesses, especially coming at a time when governments lament the small size of Australia's private venture capital market.

PE backed IPOs outperform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... out-perform other IPOs by a factor of almost 50:1, according to research just released by the private equity and venture capital association AVCAL. The study which was prepared by global financial advisory firm Rothschild examined ASX-listed IPOs since ...

OneVentures launches second fund for HNWs and instos

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
Australian venture capital firm, OneVentures has launched the OneVentures Innovation and Growth Fund II, seeking to raise $100 million from institutional investors and high net worth (HNW) individuals over the next 12 months. The fund will invest in ...