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Blue Sky raises $60.4 million for first listed alternatives fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... Blue Sky Alternative Investments has raised $60.4 million in the initial public offering of shares in its Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund Limited (Alternatives Fund). The new Listed Investment Company (LIC), set to debut on the Australian Securities ...

Low rates force banks to change term deposit strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... source of bank funding," Roy Morgan industry communications director Norman Morris said. "The rapid growth in the alternatives such as bonus interest/reward saver accounts with an increase of over seven hundred thousand customers in the last year and ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... themselves and embrace the strategies with genuinely low correlations will be rewarded," Kabiller said. According to the alternatives specialist, funds with good returns in all markets, high Sharpe ratios (a measure of risk/adjusted return) and low correlations ...

AMP carbon screening leads to just two divestments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... developing countries. Similarly for transport fuels - there's no viable alternative." However, there are many viable alternatives to thermal coal, which is why it was screened, he said.

Challenger makes senior Fidante Partners appointment

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Michael Clarke said. Fidante Partners' international businesses include Asian equities manager, Metisq Capital, global alternatives specialist, WyeTree, global infrastructure manager, Whitehelm Capital, global credit investor, Bentham Asset Management ...

Blue Sky directors buy stake in Alternatives Fund IPO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... board members will invest at least $1.35 million in aggregate through the initial public offering of the manager's Alternatives Fund. Blue Sky chairman John Kain, Alexander McNab and Andrew Champion's stake in the Alternatives Fund will add to the $5 ...

FEATURE: Managing SMSF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... for superannuation. SMSF trustees in Australia can invest in virtually all asset classes, including property and alternatives. Their only limitation is the trustee limit of four people. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO)'s figures from December 2013 ...

Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... yields and growing concern about monetary tightening, CIOs are planning to increase allocations to less liquid assets, alternatives and equities - rather than increase credit risk or lengthen duration - to bolster potential investment yields and returns." ...

Blue Sky launches first listed investment company

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... has launched an initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to $100 million to list Australia's first diversified, alternatives-focused Listed Investment Company (LIC) on the ASX. With the listing, the company is aiming to offer investors an investment ...

Growth of institutional infrastructure demand revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... have plunged $439 billion into direct infrastructure projects in the last four years, according to research from alternatives research house Preqin. Preqin's latest research estimates that institutions have invested directly in infrastructure deals valued ...