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'Australia's food sector is desperate, grossly underestimated'

“Prices at the farm level are rising, so farmers are doing their best,” he said. “The dairy losers, but as the sun sets in the west, times change, circles occur. When assets are at their worst, that’s when we are at their happiest.” The Micro Cap Activist Fund (MCAF), run by Mr Iafrate’s Melbourne-based company Armytage Private, was set up after commissioning a financial services empire to target small-medium-priced finance. The fund is one of the top return equity funds of the past three years according to Morningstar data thanks to the busy M & Activities among small financial services companies and have received 10 takeovers since 2019. The list includes Hub24’s bid for rival Xplore Wealth, Apex Group’s acquisition of Mainstream Group, 360 Capital’s deal with Evans Dixon, and Iress games for OneVue. Iafrate said he owed a fall in royal commissions, benefiting from mispricing in the market as big banks rushed out of the advice business. “These funds are focused on finance with

Sarah's young mother is desperate to find a new home in Melbourne's outer suburbs, but she keeps getting turned down

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Sarah Keating is in a race to find a rental property before her two-year-old son grows out of bed. Key points: Rental prices in several of Melbourne’s outer southeast suburbs have seen strong growth in the past year A real estate agent says landlords are raising rents because of concerns about rising interest rates Proponents fear vulnerable people will be increasingly locked out of the rental market The 21-year-old single mother currently lives with relatives in the southeast outside Melbourne. He shared a room with Ryder’s son, but soon the two of them wouldn’t fit. “I’m trying to find a bigger place to start our life and our family’s life so he has his own room, I have his own room,” he said. “I just can’t find it anywhere. “My son can’t sleep in my bed every night with me. He needs his own bed.” Ms Keating said she had been looking for a two-bedroom place in Melbourne’s outer southeast – suburbs such as Dandenong, Pakenham, Officer, Beaconsfield, Noble Park and Clyde – for about si

Desperate Long Covid Patient Paid Thousands for Unproven Blood Screening Treatment: Report

A new investigative report out Tuesday found that long-standing COVID-19 patients are traveling overseas to try expensive and untested treatments for their symptoms, including screening their blood. But at least some experts are concerned about the trend, warning that this treatment lacks solid evidence to support its claimed benefits. The report is a collaboration between The BMJ and ITV News. The authors visited or interviewed patients who went to clinics in Cyprus, Germany and Switzerland hoping to find relief for lingering post-covid symptoms. These symptoms tend to include, but are not limited to, persistent fatigue, breathing problems, and cognitive dysfunction, or brain fog. The main treatment offered by this clinic is called apheresis. The patient’s blood is drawn, which is then “washed” and broken down into its different components of plasma and red blood cells. The blood is then recombined and finally given back to the patient via a different vein. The treatment is supp