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Blue Sky reports $2.6 million profit

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has reported an underlying net profit after tax of $2.6 million for the half year ending 31 December 2014. Underlying revenue stood at $16.5 million, up from $7.2 million in the prior corresponding period. The directors ...

Managed accounts work for insto investors too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
The term 'managed account' in Australia is usually associated with retail investment but one global technology and investment administration group has been using the structure to more efficiently manage institutional alternatives investments. Bruce ...

Findex appoints head of investment research

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
Financial services and accounting group Findex has appointed a head of investment research with experience across Australia, North America and Europe. Dr Stefano Cavaglia joins Findex from Philo Capital, where he worked as a portfolio manager. Prior ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Investors in the Australian share market can expect sluggish growth at best in 2015, as the fall in commodity prices flows on to the wider Australian economy. Plummeting oil prices and the resulting sudden fall in the domestic share market in early ...

Alternatives industry body launches Australian branch

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association has launched a new chapter in Australia to be headed up by the Future Fund's head of debt and alternatives David George, it was announced today. The CAIA is a not-for-profit organisation ...

Lazard AM grows global multi asset team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... solutions." Lazard AM is an indirect subsidiary of Lazard Ltd. It offers a range of equity, fixed-income, and alternative investment products worldwide. As of September 30, 2014, LAM and affiliated asset management companies in the Lazard Group managed ...

Instos too slow to make investment decisions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
Institutions are turning increasingly to alternative assets in a bid to boost returns but many are too slow in changing their asset allocation, according to the latest AMP Capital Institutional Investor Report. Almost half (46%) of the global survey ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

Hedge fund allocators pick unstable funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... Keith Haydon. Addressing representatives of the Australian and global hedge fund industry at the recent Alternative Investment Management Association's annual Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney, Haydon said the biggest and least well charted problem in the industry ...

How to win family office mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... their trust, a panel of family office executives has said. Addressing an audience of fund managers at the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)'s Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney yesterday, four prominent family office professionals described ...