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Wingate appoints senior analyst

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
International equities manager Wingate Asset Management has appointed former Royal Bank of Scotland executive Alastair MacLeod as senior investment analyst. MacLeod joins Wingate from Royal Bank of Scotland in New York where he held roles including ...

Super funds back biotech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), ARIA and Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund are investing in the GBS Venture Partners BioVentures IV fund, which closed with more than $100 million in commitments. Macquarie Group, Quay Partners ...

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 ...