Search Results

Showing 141 - 150 of 188 results for "healthcare"

Ruling against Heinz shows risks in public shift towards health foods

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... ascertain what's true, what's not true in terms of health claims. At Ausbil, our retail sector analyst is also the healthcare analyst, which helps in terms of analysis."

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... finance to low-income people, including buying from smallholder farmers, or offering housing, education, and affordable healthcare. The funds will also be used to help lending to women-owned enterprises, and fund projects such as those that lend mainly ...

Eight Investment Partners launches 8IP Australian Equity Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... living, etc. Then we matched those focus areas to what sectors in the stock market ware likely to be addressing problems- healthcare is the obvious one, for example." The fund also screens out certain categories - alcohol, tobacco, logging of old growth ...

Less than one-fifth of board, executive positions held by women globally: Vigeo Eiris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... proportional representation stays roughly the same up the management food chain. "We have the get-cracking sector - the healthcare and insurance sectors in particular - where you have high female representation, but massive drop off when it comes to ...

The Fred Hollows Foundation invests in eye care centre social enterprise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... accessible and sustainable eye care for people of all income levels, actively reaching out to those excluded from mainstream healthcare systems, particularly low-income people and women," and the first Alina Vision eye care centre is set to open in Vietnam ...

CEFC, Australian Ethical Investment invest in Dexus Healthcare Wholesale Property Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
Dexus has completed the first round of equity raising for the environmentally sustainable Healthcare Wholesale Property Fund (HWPF). HWPF is an Australian-first portfolio of hospital and healthcare assets with an environmentally sustainable focus. HWPF ...

UCA Funds Management hires Mathew Browning as new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... substantial growth in funds under advice. Prior to MFCo, Browning co-founded a boutique asset manager focused on global healthcare equities targeting both wholesale and retail investors. The fund doubled the return of the MSCI World Health Care Index ...

BetaShares launches Australian equities ethical ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... activities include: renewable energy, water efficiency, recycling, waste remediation and re-use of materials, education, healthcare, animal health, healthy foods and nutrition products, and green star rated buildings, amongst others. "The launch of FAIR ...

EVs, autonomous vehicles, transport as a service to disrupt cities, economy: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... wider range of sectors," she said. "We're talking about energy and utes, but also transport infrastructure, retail, healthcare, sales and maintenance, resources, insurers, transport providers and I've definitely missed a bunch." Whitton pointed out that ...

Alpha Fund Managers invests in Australian Ethical Australian Shares Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... coal, we're making positive investments that benefit the planet, people and animals. We invest in sectors such as IT, healthcare and renewables. This, along with our bias to small cap stocks, means we have a different approach to many mainstream fund ...