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Packer donates $7m to mental health research

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023
... is a pressing global challenge, and this gift will help us make real progress in this critical area of research." UNSW medicine and health dean professor Vlado Perkovic said this new chair will lead the way in transforming the understanding, prevention ...

Federal budget 2023: Winners and losers

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... the retention of Australian Defence Force members via a bonus for personnel who sign on for another term of employment. Medicine users: In a change which could allow users of hundreds of common medicines to access up to two months of medication at a ...

Fiducian sees record inflows, eyes expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
... million. "Management and the board remain positive for further growth of Fiducian in the future. Wars always end and modern medicine finds cures for pandemics," executive chair Indy Singh said. "Our expanded network of financial advisers is expected ...

Sri Lanka announces bankruptcy

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
Sri Lanka's debt-laden economy has collapsed, and its newly elected prime minister has announced bankruptcy as the island nation suffers its worst financial crisis in decades. Due to the crisis, the country has seen severe shortages of necessities like ...

Hostplus expands IP Group commitment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... Nanopore, WaveOptics, and MOBILion Systems. The fund largely backs companies operating in the clean energy, decarbonisation, medicine, healthcare and quantum computing sectors. "Hostplus is a foundational supporter of IP Group Australia, and we are delighted ...

COVID not only health issue on Budget radar

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
With Australia now moving into a 'living with COVID' stage of the pandemic, what are some of the other notable health spending measures outlined in this year's Budget? First of all, the government has allocated $2.4 billion over five years ...

Big spend on cost of living, defence

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
The 2022 Federal Budget delivered a cash splash for the defence forces and cost of living support, including a cut to the fuel excise. The deficit for 2022-23 is expected to be $78 billion, 3.4% of GDP. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced the fuel excise ...

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 ...