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QIC welcomes new director of private debt

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
The Queensland Investment Corporation has named Bettina Lung as its director of multi-sector private debt. Lung, who will report into QIC's head of multi-sector private debt Phil Miall, joins from Aware Super's credit income team. While at the super ...

Pandemic created a new billionaire every 30 hours: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... they are now reaping the benefits." Oxfam's brief also revealed that global corporations in the energy, food and pharmaceutical sectors are posting record-high profits, even as wages have barely budged, and workers struggle with decades-high prices amid ...

COVID not only health issue on Budget radar

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... all, the government has allocated $2.4 billion over five years towards reducing the cost of medicines through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), with treatments for bowel cancer, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis among the new listings on the ...

Key Budget measure won't help economy: Academic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
... funding for mental healthcare is also expected, with investment in prevention likely alongside additions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. That's according to Macquarie University Centre for Health Economy director Henry Cutler, who added: "If its ...

UniSuper makes venture capital play

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022
UniSuper, the $106 billion industry fund, has made an investment with a venture capital fund manager. The fund has invested $75 million with early-stage commercialisation fund manager, Uniseed. The investment will feed into UniSuper's sustainable investment ...

EG, SIGMA to deliver Tasmanian distribution facility

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
EG Funds (EG) has partnered with A SX listed pharmaceutical wholesaler and distributor company Sigma Healthcare to deliver a storage and distribution centre on a parcel of land in Bridgewater, Tasmania. Bridgewater is a newly formed industrial estate ...

Investors dig deeper for alternative assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... parks, industrial offices, and suburban metro markets. This is largely driven by the growth of the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and biomedical industries, which have come into the spotlight due to the pandemic," AEW managing director and head of research ...

How to invest in China: Capital Group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JAN 2022
China's slowing economy may have investors on edge as we ease into 2022, but there's still plenty of opportunities - so long as you know where to look, Capital Group says. Providing an investment outlook for 2022, Capital Group said investors must do ...

ESG investing 2.0 emerges

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
The second iteration of environmental, social and governance investing will require a stronger level of authenticity, accountability and focus on tangible outcomes, according to sustainability experts. A significant shift is taking place in the world ...

Boutique hires portfolio manager from Ausbil

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... comes at an opportune time for the domestic small cap sector, which his fund invests in. "Companies connected to pharmaceutical distribution, cloud software, online services and food are likely to do well as the economy reopens. We'll be continuing to ...