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Bellevue Asset Management AG: Emerging Markets Healthcare sector comeback

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

After a string of difficult years, a trend reversal is under way in emerging market healthcare stocks.

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  • After a string of difficult years, a trend reversal is under way in emerging market healthcare stocks.
  • In the Bellevue Emerging Markets Healthcare Fund, the China allocation is more than 60% and in the Bellevue Asia Pacific Healthcare Fund it is about 40%.
  • Remo Krauer has been a Senior Portfolio Manager Healthcare Funds & Mandates at Bellevue Asset Management since 2018.
  • Previously, he worked at Zürcher Kantonalbank, first as Senior Portfolio Manager, then as Head Portfolio Construction for Private Asset Management.

National Coffee Day Survey by Roasting Plant Coffee Finds Americans in the Dark About What Makes Coffee Fresh, Where Their Coffee is Roasted and How to Store It

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Monday, September 26, 2022

NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A national survey of American millennial coffee drinkers conducted by Roasting Plant® Coffee just ahead of National Coffee Day (Sept. 29) and International Coffee Day (Oct. 1) uncovered big gaps in knowledge about what makes coffee fresh, how long to keep it and where to store it.

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  • Roasting Plant found that 62% of make-at-home coffee lovers store their coffee for three weeks or more, while only 12% keep it for a week or less.
  • 75% of coffee drinkers purchase ground coffee to make at home, the survey found.
  • Scientific research was cited from The Specialty Coffee Association and Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Coffee Freshness Handbook 2018.
  • Roasting Plant operates cafes in New York, Detroit, Denver, Minneapolis, San Francisco and London, and inside select The Fresh Market grocery stores.

Bellevue Asset Management AG: Asia’s rapidly expanding healthcare market

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Oliver Kubli, Portfolio Manager, Bellevue Asia Pacific Healthcare Fund, Bellevue Asset Management

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  • Oliver Kubli, Portfolio Manager, Bellevue Asia Pacific Healthcare Fund, Bellevue Asset Management
    The healthcare market in emerging Asian economies is a giant growth market.
  • Emerging Asian countries have been particularly active in pursuing sweeping healthcare reforms, in order to keep up with exploding demand.
  • Despite the occasionally brutal stock market sell-offs, Chinese healthcare stocks have outperformed the US stock market by more than 1 000 percent over the past 18 years.
  • About 40% of the Bellevue Asia Pacific Healthcare Fund (ISIN B-USD LU1587984847) is currently invested in China.

Volcafe partners with dss+: Swiss coffee trader works with sustainability experts to plot course for climate action

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

GENEVA, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss coffee trader Volcafe is making preparations for a carbon-neutral future and beyond.

Key Points: 
  • GENEVA, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss coffee trader Volcafe is making preparations for a carbon-neutral future and beyond.
  • dss+, drawing on its experience with integrating climate action into business operations, will support Volcafe in developing a carbon reduction and removal plan.
  • Volcafe launched its new Sustainability Strategy in October 2021, with one of the three strategic pillars focused on combatting climate change through regenerative practices in coffee farming.
  • The Volcafe Way farmer support programme works with tens of thousands of coffee farmers and promotes sustainable profitability, regenerative practices, and responsible citizenship throughout coffee value chains.

Gilgamesh Builds Team of Pharmaceutical Industry Leaders and Appoints New Members to Board of Directors

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Thursday, November 11, 2021

The additions will enable Gilgamesh to rapidly advance its pipeline toward clinical trials beginning in late 2022 and further expand its IP portfolio.

Key Points: 
  • The additions will enable Gilgamesh to rapidly advance its pipeline toward clinical trials beginning in late 2022 and further expand its IP portfolio.
  • professor at Yale University and was the Chief Scientific Officer of Psychiatric Disorders Discovery Biology at Eli Lilly and Company.
  • Chief Operating Officer Yoni Falkson, MBAjoins Gilgamesh after spending more than 15 years focused on commercial development, payer strategy, and product launches at Pfizer and Regeneron.
  • He was a Lilly Fellow in Neuroscience and served as the CSO and President of DOV Pharmaceutical, Inc.

EQS-News: Jean-Pierre Valenghi to become new Head of Real Estate at Baloise

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Jean-Pierre Valenghi, CEO of newhome.ch, is to become the new Head of Real Estate at the Baloise Group.

Key Points: 
  • Jean-Pierre Valenghi, CEO of newhome.ch, is to become the new Head of Real Estate at the Baloise Group.
  • From January 2022, he will be responsible for the entire real estate business, with around CHF9billion in assets under management.
  • Given the strategic importance of the real estate business for the acquisition of external customer assets in the period to 2025, I am delighted to welcome Jean-Pierre Valenghi to Baloise.
  • He worked there until 2013, holding several real estate functions, the last one being Head of Real Estate Consulting.

EQS-News: Swiss Prime Site Solutions awarded FINMA licence

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Monday, September 27, 2021

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted real estate asset manager Swiss Prime Site Solutions approval to manage funds.

Key Points: 
  • The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted real estate asset manager Swiss Prime Site Solutions approval to manage funds.
  • This is an important strategic step for our group company Swiss Prime Site Solutions, says Ren Zahnd, CEO Swiss Prime Site Group.
  • Anastasius Tschopp, CEO Swiss Prime Site Solutions, adds: We are very pleased to have reached this milestone and we are now working flat out to enter the market with our first real estate fund.
  • In the first half of 2021, Swiss Prime Site Solutions managed to convincingly fulfil its growth forecasts.

Karsten Berlage Appointed CFO of South Street Securities Holdings, Inc.

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Thursday, September 16, 2021

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- South Street Securities Holdings, Inc. (SSSHI) is pleased to announce Karsten Berlage as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- South Street Securities Holdings, Inc. (SSSHI) is pleased to announce Karsten Berlage as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
  • "I am very excited to join South Street with an opportunity to work with a team of experienced, entrepreneurial and creative industry experts.
  • Finally, I'm thrilled to assist our amazing AmeriVet Securities team to build a powerhouse D&I franchise."
  • South Street Securities Holdings, Inc. operates from its New York, NY headquarters and branch offices in North Carolina, Arkansas and the United Kingdom.