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Blue Sky funds Australian wine venture

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
Blue Sky Venture Capital has financed the first capital raise for wine website Vinomofo, committing $25 million to support overseas growth for the Australian business. The capital raise coincides with Vinomofo launching its business lite model to six ...

Infocus purchases another advice business

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
Privately-owned Infocus Wealth Management has acquired its fourth financial advice business in the space of two years, underlining the group's succession plan and wider strategy. Infocus now owns two advice businesses in Melbourne, two in south-east ...

Pengana absolute return fund shifts to daily pricing

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Australian funds management group, Pengana has announced that its Pengana Absolute Return Asia Pacific Fund (PARAPF) has moved to daily pricing. The move brings the fund's pricing, and processing of applications and redemptions in line with the rest ...

Crowe Horwath makes two senior appointments

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Crowe Horwath has appointed David Ward and Trevor Pascall as corporate finance and tax advisory principals respectively. Ward joins Crowe Horwath from Credo Advisory Partners, an independent boutique corporate advisory firm specialising in the provision ...

HSBC joins mFund service

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
HSBC's online share trading platform has joined the Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX) mFund settlement service. The ASX said today's announcement brings the number of mFund distribution partners to 18, and there are now 22 mFund issuers or responsible ...

Infrastructure pricing reshaping investment landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
JANA senior consultant Susan Orr recently told the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) that there is plenty of dry powder among investment managers looking to invest in infrastructure. Yet one of the pitfalls in this environment is the impact ...

La Trobe P2P option gets SQM rating

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
Ratings organisation SQM Research has given La Trobe Financial's Peer-to-Peer (P2P) investment option with a superior 4 star rating. SQM Research head Louis Christopher said: "The fund has outperformed the peer group and SQM Research's comparative benchmark ...

Kim Morison joins Blue Sky Alternative Investments board

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has appointed Kim Morison to the organisation's board. Morrison joined the company in 2010 and is the managing director of Blue Sky's Real Assets business with responsibilities across the company's assets portfolios ...

Industry groups slam SEC plan to limit derivatives

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
US industry groups have hit back at a proposal by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to try to limit investors' exposure to risk. In December Mary Jo White, the chair of the US corporate watchdog said a funds' use of certain instruments can ...

Financial services leading Australian M&A

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
Law firm Pitcher Partners believes financial services and professional services will continue to lead mid-market merger and acquisition deals for the remainder of 2016. In the second issue of its Dealmakers report, Pitcher Partners said M&A deals in ...