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NSW Medical Devices Fund grants $8.6m

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... In the 2015 financial year, $46 million was invested by venture capital funds into the Australian healthcare and life sciences sector.

Cities over countries for TH Real Estate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... metropolitan areas which are seen as 'innovation centres' for technology, finance, media, education, and the medical sciences, attracting younger employees and "establishing a self-sustaining base of knowledge-based growth." Likewise, growth in the Asia-Pacific ...

New board members at Sunsuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... partner at CM Capital Investments, an institutionally backed venture capital company focused on the biotechnology, life sciences, telecommunications, information technology and renewable energy sectors. He has held directorships on numerous companies ...

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... the opportunity for institutions is being overlooked. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) also forecasts farm production value will rise by 3% in 2016-17, following a 9% increase this financial year to $58.7 ...

Findex partners to advance medical research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... research will come to the fore through a partnership announced by Findex and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. The partnership will discuss potential recommendations to the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund - a perpetual ...

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... an illegal substance." Ariel holds between 75 and 90 stocks in its portfolio, with the top allocations going to Gilead Sciences, Microsoft, China Mobile and GlaxoSmithKline. It has delivered a return on equity of 21.5% over the five years to 30 June ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... large gains included Facebook (+3.7 per cent), Microsoft (+2.3 per cent) and many biotechnology stocks, including Gilead Sciences (+2.2 per cent). Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores gained 0.7 per cent as it unveiled a test program in the US to give online ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... members Apple and Intel fell 2.3 per cent and 2.4 per cent, respectively, while Google dropped 1.9 per cent and Gilead Sciences shed 2.5 per cent. Exceptions included Netflix (+1.9 per cent), which was upgraded by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Tesla ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... for lower interest bonds. It gained greater traction (and amount) following comments made by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Liu Yihui that he expects the Ministry of Finance to allow as much as 10 trillion yuan (US$1.6 trillion) to be ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... since December. Similarly, why do expectations for stimulus remain in China? According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences "Premier Li Keqiang said there won't be strong stimulus, but he didn't say there won't be any stimulus".... and in the eurozone? ...