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NSW Medical Devices Fund grants $8.6m

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... its rapid 'self- testing' HIV test, recently received a $6 million investment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the 2015 financial year, $46 million was invested by venture capital funds into the Australian healthcare and life sciences ...

BlackRock slashes iShares ETF fees

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... "The iShares range already offers investors and advisors the cost-efficiency, liquidity and quality they need at the foundation of their portfolios. Now they can have the same quality at an even greater value." This news follows Vanguard making a similar ...

Advisers must know more than client history

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... financial advice practice advisers must move beyond technical advice and truly get to know their clients, according to AFA Foundation chair Olivia Sarah-Le Lacheur. Speaking at the 2016 AFA National Adviser Conference, Sarah-Le Lacheur celebrated the ...

Crestone signs former Rio Tinto CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... and is involved with the National Gallery of Victoria as a member of the Council of Trustees; he is also chair of its foundation. He is a senior adviser to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and he previously held directorships on the boards of Barclays; Rio ...

AMP launches new advice business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... financial advice improves the lives of our customers." "We also know the concept of personal goals has long been the foundation of the most effective financial advice. This principle has driven the development of AMP Advice, through which goals frame ...

VFMC CIO steps down, CFO departs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
Victorian Funds Management Corporation will farewell its chief investment officer and chief financial officer in the coming months. After leading the VFMC investment strategy for eight years, Justin Pascoe is stepping down as CIO to spend more time ...

Praemium chair to retire, intended successor revealed

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... non-executive director of Bank Australia, Yarra Valley Water, Bottlecycler Australia and the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. Loveday said: "Praemium has been substantially restructured over the last four to five years and is now in a position ...

Food-related sector appetising for investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... Terra New Horizons Fund for investments, with Australian-based seed developer Abundant Produce as a niche stock in its foundation portfolio. Designed for those looking to invest in small emerging companies with the target of superior absolute returns ...

Report outlines impact of MDA operation reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... to have the greatest impact on the industry is the removal of a No Action Letter, which some advisers have used as a foundation for running discretionary portfolios on regulated platforms via a Limited MDA arrangement. MGP chief executive David Heather ...

IFM active equity team wins first mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... attracted to our consistent returns, differentiated style and lower correlation with peers. We have a limited amount of foundation capacity that we expect to be taken down quickly."