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Students opt for healthcare over finance: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
... who took part in the global survey, more Australians see themselves working in healthcare (24%), education (22%) and medicine/science (20%), than in finance (17%). However, nearly half of Aussies are reassessing their career paths because of the COIVD-19 ...

ARK Innovation ETF cops neutral rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... the fund doubled its stake in 2020 and now owns 21% of the $1 billion company. ARKK also owns more than 10% in Editas Medicine EDIT, which it has held since 2017. The fund doubled its stake in the US-based genome editing firm in 2020, and the stock returned ...

Sydney firm launches new venture capital fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... from the medical community. This shouldn't come as a great surprise given our best and brightest have been going into medicine but what has changed is a strong entrepreneurship mindset and the ability to transform practises through digitisation," Allen ...

Macquarie backs medical drone testing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) portfolio company will trial a medical drone logistics network across the United Kingdom. AGS Airports, held by Ferrovial and the MIRA managed entity AGS Ventures Airports, is leading a consortium to develop ...

Chief economist update: An extra mile for a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
"They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know I know that it's true..." - Neil Sedaka It's been three-and-a-half years since the UK decided and then filed for divorce from the European Union (EU) and 11 months into the transition period ...

Budget boosts female participation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... announced that Lynparza, a type of medical treatment, will no longer cost $140,000 per course. Patients will now access the medicine at $6.60 per script for concession card holders and around $41 per script for general patients, he said. About 9000 individuals ...

More clarity on life insurance best interest duty needed: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... level of benefits paid. Additionally, the taskforce is calling for products that can be updated to allow for advances in medicine, technology and society's expectations, sustainability heat maps and a review of board composition to ensure risks are ...

Chief economist update: Dan defeats second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
Bitter and painful as the medicine may be, it's starting to work downunder. Melbourne's 14-day average of coronavirus infections continues to trend lower, this day at 32.8 persons - within the average 30-50 case rate that the Andrews government ...

MS sufferer fights CommInsure definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... doesn't fit their definition of having MS. A definition that was obviously written years ago and not in line with modern medicine," she said "MS patients deteriorate in different ways at different rates. Mary is a very unwell lady, you would hope ...

Impact investing in healthcare: American Century

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... and wellbeing. Li noted the portfolio has four impact themes which are: innovation that can treat disease, access to medicine and health care services in developed and emerging markets, new solutions to lowering the cost of health care and more productive ...