Articles On Blue Sky Alternative Investments (ASX:BLA)

  Immutep Limited (ASX:IMM) Executive Director and CEO Marc Voigt, Chief Medical Officer Dr Florian Vogl, and Senior Vice President Strategic Development Christian Mueller present on Immutep’s latest clinical results. Key points: Efti in c...

The term “don’t catch a falling knife” is a common term used which means the share price may drop further. Trying to catch a knife that is falling is, of course, a dangerous thing to do and could lead to some bloodshed. Therefore, wait for...

Class action law firms Shine and Piper Alderman will jointly pursue the bankrupt Blue Sky Alternative Investments, rather than file overlapping and competing cases. 

Touch Ventures Ltd became a rare Australian company today – an ASX-listed venture capital firm – and investors keen to back high-growth companies embraced to chance to grab a slice of the action.  Touch (ASX: TVL) raised $100 million for it...

Afterpay backed investment fund Touch Ventures (ASX:TVL) is set to join the ASX on Wednesday. Touch Ventures raised $100 million at 40 cents a share and is set to be capitalised at $285.3 million on its ASX debut. It was formally launched i...

Partners and principals at leading Australian venture capital firms, including Square Peg Capital, Main Sequence Ventures, Giant Leap, Jelix Ventures, and Flying Fox Ventures have signed an open letter to the editor the AFR about what the i...

Ask A Fund Manager The Motley Fool chats with fund managers so that you can get an insight into how the professionals think. In this edition, Cyan Investment Management portfolio manager Dean Fergie tips 2 ASX shares flying under the radar...

Short selling has long been controversial, with not everyone convinced that it is a good idea to be able to make money from shares that fall in value. That is particularly the case for chief executives and boards whose companies are hit by...

In this week's Weekly Insights:-Yet Another Short Selling Failure-February: Early Days, Full Of Promise-A Different Environment For Dividends-FNArena WebinarBy Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArena Yet Another Short Selling FailureShort sell...

Could the ASX become subject to the same trading shenanigans in the US which put a rocket up the share price of struggling video outlet operator GameStop and then the silver market. It’s certainly food for short … er, thought. This month sh...

Dr Elaine Stead, the former head of venture capital at the now defunct Blue Sky Alternative Investments fund, has been awarded $280,000 in damages a defamation case against Australian Financial Review and its Rear Window columnist Joe Aston...

The newspaper’s Joe Aston described former Blue Sky Alternative Investments director Elaine Stead as a “feminist cretin” who “set fire to other people’s money”.

Shares in job search platform SEEK Limited (ASX: SEK) have made a strong recovery from the start of the month, following tension between US activist short-seller Blue Orca and SEEK’s business in China, Zhaopin. The SEEK share price has been...

The new manager of troubled Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund Ltd (ASX: BAF) has made an unprecedented guarantee to current and future shareholders. In an extraordinary general meeting this week, 99.97% of the listed investment company’s s...

Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund Ltd (ASX: BAF) investors may be able to breathe a little easier amid the coronavirus market sell-off. Its management will shift to Wilson Asset Management (WAM). What has been announced? The Board of Blue...

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, or so the saying goes. But for Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund (ASX: BAF) its breakup with parent Blue Sky Alternative Investments (ASX: BLA) has been the right move. The investment vehicle has demo...

If you want to beat the market, what’s the best way to do it? Is it best to utilise small caps? What about mid-caps with good growth potential? How about dividend shares? One of the best ways to deliver strong returns is to choose a high-q...

The uncertainties in almost every aspect of human life are uninvited guests for which not everyone is prepared. Similarly, many investors put their hard-earned money into risk carrying investment vehicles without having the knowledge of the...

By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion How to benefit from short selling With an increasing number of activist short selling campaigns targeting stocks perceived as overvalued, nervous directors will be asking ‘who’s next?’ It’s a nightm...

In what has been described as a "significant breakthrough" for shareholders in Blue Sky's Alternatives Access Fund (ASX: BAF) the fund has found a new manager. Following extensive discussions BAF's current manager, the beleaguered Blue Sk...

Blue Sky Alternative Investments has settled on the sale of its student accommodation portfolio to sector gorilla Scape.

Rural Funds Group (ASX: RFF) founder David Bryant has purchased almost $500,000 worth of shares in the wake of a fresh attack from short seller Bonitas Research.  Led by one of the men who was responsible for the short on Blue Sky Alterna...

When analysts talk, investors usually listen whether they agree or not. This is particularly the case when calls are especially radical, whether calling the entire stock a dud, predicting it will rise several times or just bold calls about...

This week’s list of director trades over $100,000 includes directors that are buying shares when the market (or a segment of it) think otherwise. One way investors bet against a stock is shorting and since we began our fortnightly Short &am...

Three days after attacked by short-sellers, three Rural Funds Group (ASX: RFF) directors have bought $1.2 million in shares between them. Bonitas Research dropped a bombshell in a research report released on Monday saying the stock was “wor...

Embattled fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments (ASX: BLA) has been dropped by the South Australian government from its role of managing the state's venture fund. The independent committee in charge of the $50 million SA Venture C...

The Blue Sky Alternative Access Fund Ltd (ASX: BAF) is an ASX Listed Investment Company or LIC. Note that it is quite different to Blue Sky Alternative Investments Ltd (ASX: BLA), which was suspended from ASX trading in May. The latter is t...

The carving up of Blue Sky Alternative Investments (ASX: BLA) has begun with assets set to be filtered through to the vulture fund that came to its rescue in the darkest hour.  Yesterday the embattled company announced restructuring would...

In recent times, businesses are pacing up at colossal rates to build steady portfolios and channelisethe profit paths. With a chunk of attention towards generating profits and coping with the dynamic drifts of the economic and business envi...

As per today’s trading session on ASX, AOG, PNI and ECX have shown upside movement of 2.828%, 1.182% and 7.083%, respectively. Let’s dig deeper and look at these stocks with their recent updates. Aveo Group (ASX: AOG) Aveo Group (ASX: AOG)...

Fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments (ASX: BLA) ended its 7.5-year run on the ASX after going into receivership. At its peak the Brisbane-based investment firm was worth almost $1.2 billion, with capital raisings easily fulfilled...