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I pride myself on being a young and independent woman. But my dad is a financial planner, so my share portfolio is more demure than brat.
The sensible (sometimes boring) shares
I don’t have heaps of money to invest in shares, so I’m happy to let my dad recommend the ETFs that I should invest in to make sure my share portfolio is diversified.
One of the more interesting shares is a property fund called the Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT. It mostly owns childcare properties, but also has properties used for higher education, healthcare, and emergency services. I’m sure my dad could talk about it for hours, but the high level info is enough for me to be happy to invest. The full ethical profile for CQE will be coming soon to the SIX app – stay tuned! In the meantime, you can read their financial and company profiles on the app.
What I’m actually interested in: healthcare companies
Healthcare is an area I’m personally interested in, and I studied it at university. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between health and issues like climate change.
I’ve just made my first investment in a healthcare company called Cochlear. They help people with hearing impairments, and over 44,000 people have a Cochlear acoustic implant. Many healthcare companies don’t put much effort into reducing their climate impacts, but Cochlear has some genuinely strong carbon reduction efforts.
I don’t have a ‘portfolio’ of healthcare stocks because, like most people, I need to save while I invest. However, there are a couple of interesting healthcare companies I’ve put on my watchlist. Polynovo has very cool technology which helps people who have suffered from burns. They also have a lot of women in charge and, as research has said, companies with higher numbers of women executives tend to outperform those with only men in charge.
Pro Medicus has software that helps with radiology and diagnostic imaging. I'm a little worried about their increasing use of AI in diagnostics because, without nerding out too hard, diagnostic imaging can be variable as is – and AI doesn't seem to always be adept at managing those variabilities. I also have a few questions about how much their share price has gone up over the last year. Does that mean it’s a good or a bad time to invest in it? (If only they had AI to help me with that.)
The ethical profiles for these companies are available in the SIX app:
