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Alcidion raises $1.5 million to take health platform to next level

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Leading Australian health informatics company, Alcidion Corporation, has raised $1.5 million from Blue Sky Private Equity, Allure Capital and Alcidion co-founders Ray Blight and Malcolm Pradhan to fund the next

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31 Mar 2015

Blue Sky Alternative Investments’ assets under management and investment performance update

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Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited (ASX:BLA) has released its latest fund investment performance, showing an internal rate of return across its funds of 15.3 per cent per annum net of

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18 Mar 2015

Blue Sky reveals its Alternatives Access Fund allocations

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Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited (Blue Sky) has allocated nearly 70 per cent of the $60 million raised for its Alternatives Access Fund (ASX: BAF) into alternative assets – including

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15 Aug 2014

New fund to bring much needed capital to starved Australian VC sector

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Blue Sky Venture Capital, a division of Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited (ASX:BLA), is aiming to raise $30 million for a new fund in a bid to capitalise on Australia’s

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15 Jul 2014

Blue Sky raises $60 million for Australia’s first alternatives LIC

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Strong investor interest has seen Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited raise more than $60 million in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of its Alternatives Access Fund, exceeding the minimum subscription

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13 Jun 2014

IPO for Australia’s first diversified alternatives-focused LIC

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Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited (ASX: BLA) (Blue Sky) launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) to raise up to $100 million to list Australia’s first diversified, alternatives-focused Listed Investment Company

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08 May 2014

Blue Sky opens Melbourne office

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Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited has opened a new Melbourne office to build on the company’s continued growth in assets under management and investor demand. Laz Siapantas has been appointed as Blue Sky’s

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05 Mar 2014

Japan approaching a tipping point

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On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) released its first statement for 2013 and the first since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in December. Two things to note about

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04 Feb 2013

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