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Blue Sky chair steps down amid business restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments' chair will step down at the annual general meeting and the group chief investment officer role will be made redundant as part of an overhaul of the company's business model and structure. Any executive directors other ...

Blue Sky hits back at hedge fund, requests ASIC intervention

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
Blue Sky Alternative Investments resumed trading on the ASX and has requested ASIC investigate the accusations made by a US hedge fund - and associated short-selling - last week. Glaucus Research Group argued "Blue Sky is significantly overstating its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue Sky profits underscore alternatives opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Blue Sky Alternative Investments reported a 97% boost in statutory net profit after tax to $20.7 million in its annual results, an outcome managing director Robert Shand believes underpins the firm's value proposition to clients looking for opportunities ...

Former Fidelity CIO joins Yarra board

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... and investment committees of Russell Investments, FWD Insurance, Altius Asset Management and Blue Sky Alternative Investments. Yarra chair Mark Burgess said: "Michael's appointment is a significant milestone for Yarra Capital Management." "He brings ...

Water investing makes a splash

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... exposure to water rights as well," Zinurova says. With $2.7 billion in assets under management, Blue Sky Alternative Investments managing director Kim Morison says the majority of investors in the Blue Sky Water Fund are high net worth individuals and ...

Blue Sky expands board with new directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
A former Perpetual group executive has taken on a directorship with Blue Sky Alternative Investments. Michael Gordon has been appointed as an independent, non-executive director, bringing with him more than 30 years' financial services experience across ...

Private equity manager secures insto mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... investor. The institutional investor is yet to be named, but the mandate - which was secured in Blue Sky Alternative Investments' real assets division - will be implemented across all of Blue Sky's real assets strategies including agribusiness private ...

Blue Sky exits pet food supplier

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
Blue Sky Alternative Investments sold its stake in Australia's largest online pet food and accessory supplier. The company invested in Pet Circle, owned by Millell, in 2013. Over that period, Blue Sky said Pet Circle achieved a "four times increase ...