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Grow returns with timber

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Swiss private bank Pictet is launching an investment fund that not only exposes investors to potential long term returns from the timber industry but could also aid efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. The firm's PF(LUX) - Timber Fund invests ...

Shaw grows business in shaky times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
Shaw Stockbroking is defying the bear market by expanding its business and hiring staff from international investment powerhouses. Shaw managing director Harold Shapiro said the bear market has opened doors for key staff hire from international finance ...

Super funds pay little attention to biotech

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... investment profile, small companies coupled with insufficient scale and a market cycle that favours other industries to biotech and life sciences. "A superfund is not going to invest in a $5 or 10 million dollar company, they're going to struggle to ...

Local biotech shines through overseas listing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... targeting US investors was a "natural avenue of support", particularly when local investors continue to shy away from the biotech sphere. "Biotechnology is still a relatively new sector to invest in and there is low investor understanding of the development ...

Hunter Hall turns deep green

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
Hunter Hall has released a new environmentally focused global fund that aims to generate "a positive outcome for the wellbeing of people, animals and the environment" by using a highly exclusive range of filters that eliminates countries like Japan ...

Biotech fund breaks into $4bn hearing loss sector

Listed fund BioTech Capital is making a play for the $4 billion hearing loss industry by injecting $2 million into hearing technology company Sensear. Sensear is a Western Australian-based company that was spun off the Western Australian Telecommunications ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... 6,142.8, up from 6,136.1. NEW YORK - US stocks rose overnight as drug maker MedImmune Inc put itself up for sale, lifting the biotech sector, and strong retail sales data relieved fears about consumer spending. A surge in oil prices gave investors a ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2007
The Australian market is expected to open higher mirroring Wall Street, which gained as investors moved to large-cap, defensive stocks against a shaky global backdrop. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0807 AEST, the June share price index contract ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
The Australian stock market remained lower at noon, dragged down by weakness in the resources sector following softer commodities prices. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 21.7 points down at 5967.6, while the all ordinaries index was ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... Australia because they are not allowed to share this concession as the intellectual property rights reside elsewhere. The biotech industry has said that the relaxation of this rule would allow the smaller companies within the industry to join with those ...