The province has increased the capacity of the #Alberta#Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, taking the amount available for loan guarantees for #investment in projects in the #naturalresources industry and other sectors to $3 billion.
The bump signals to companies planning “monumental transactions” that Alberta is “committed” to support such projects long term.
The province wants #Canada to set up a similar program for Trans Mountain equity.
A life science venture investor is merging two of its biotechnology portfolio companies to form a single developer of nanoscale medications with programmable properties.
Venture investments in U.S. life science and biotechnology start-ups in the third quarter of 2023 rose from the previous two quarters to reach pre-pandemic levels.
Hard as it may be to believe, since April SSE's #windfarms have been under-performning by around a fifth in the #energy fed into the national grid.
The claim is that 'adverse weather conditions' reduced their ability to generate #windpower... by which I assume they mean not windy enough?
Of course, we cannot know how realistic or otherwise their projections were (they may have been hyped for #investment purposes?), but as a #cyclist in the NW, let me tell you its been windy enough here!
An alliance of academic labs and venture investors is starting a new research enterprise to speed development of treatments for rare diseases in the U.S. and U.K.
With a tenth of the population and workforce, they think they are owed half the country’s CPP. This should be a last straw insult. Canada should have its own referendum on kicking Alberta out, land-lock them, stop subsidies and payments, impose its own charges for anything flowing out, sue for all damages from excessive emissions and say good riddance.
The method is: if the #province had not joined #CPP, but instead maintained its own plan (like Quebec), had exactly the same #contributions as it did with CPP, got the same rate of return on #investment as CPP, minus everything paid out of CPP? The reports actually went further and discounted the value of those payouts to get the lower number, even though it's not in the formula.
@cazabon a different interpretation suggests 16% is more realistic, including the potential risks involved. This one doesn’t include trying to take advantage of the rest of Canada.
As Torsten Bell notes, a key problem behind so many issues is a lack of #investment - from the #NHScrisis to #RAAC in #schools, from our #productivity problems, to the state of our #infrastructure; so much would be different if the UK invested at the rate more normal across #Europe.
But notably behind the UK's seeming short-termism is, to me, a wider problem:
in the UK we have just stopped believing in the future... with devastating effects across society!
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The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index, an indicator of investor sentiment in an industry based on science, continued heading down during the third quarter of 2023.
A new company developing digital cardiac diagnostics is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic on early detection of coronary artery disease, a key trigger of heart attacks.
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This mission is more important then ever, which is why I'm thrilled to announce that I've invested into Vamo! A German #Startup offering "Heatpumps as a Service", so people can make the switch without a hefty upfront investment!
Now let's get everyone onto the only low-carbon, affordable and scalable heating system available today. Go #Heatpump!
Talked to somone online who suffers actual cash flow problems because he never allows any considerable sum of #money to sit outside a time-locked #investment fund. It's never even occurred to me to optimise for maximum cash yield like that. I have more fun things to do with my time.
"One bill — already approved by the [California State] Senate — would force about 5,300 #US corporations earning more than $1 billion and doing business in #California to annually report their global [greenhouse gas] #emissions that contribute to #ClimateChange.
Another bill that won Senate approval would require more than 10,000 companies with revenues exceeding $500 million to detail how climate change poses #FinancialRisks to their [worldwide] #operations."
If these bills pass all the hurdles - and of course it will be taken to court - California will have caused a financial earthquake that will reverberate around the planet.
"Julie Gorte, SVP sustainable investing at Impax Asset Management, says, “What the #investment community is working at doing is pricing #ClimateRisk. We need real assurance by 2030 … If [a company has] higher #emissions, they’re at greater risk and I’m going to need a premium” to own such companies."
A new company spun-off from a university lab consortium is advancing gene therapies delivered through the lungs to treat rare inherited respiratory diseases.
UK infrastructure investment falls by nearly two-thirds following Brexit. New public sector lenders are failing to make up for losses due to Britain's exit from the European Investment Bank.
Some #Brexiters may argue (not completely implausibly) that it is too early to conclude that the UK's replacement for #EuropeanInvestmentBank development support is running at only a third of the level of the EU's provision of #Investment funds, but currently the gap is striking.
For optimists, the start of the UK Development Banks record doesn't look unlike the early years of the EIB's disbursement of funds... for pessimists, every year it falls short emphasises the negative impact of #Brexit
A new company developing treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases from aberrant immune system activity is raising $58 million in seed funds.
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