This Month
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Consumers leaning in to telehealth convenience
Amid doctor shortages and overwhelmed GP practices, patients are turning to telehealth for a wide range of services including medical consultations and prescriptions.
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Why this sleep expert wants everyone to stop worrying about sleep
Anxiety about not getting enough sleep has become a problem in itself. Here’s what you can do about it - and a bit of late night TV is OK.
- Emma Connors
Intermediate Capital Group set to acquire Cura Day Hospitals
ICG knows Cura well, having funded a management buyout from Archer Capital in 2014.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Energy transition
What really matters now for investors, and nine more opinion reads
Here are 10 opinion pieces from the week.
Inside the Chemist Warehouse franchisee world
There are over 200 managing partners who are shareholders in the discount chain. They are all ambitious pharmacy owners, many with multiple sites.
- Carrie LaFrenz
ACL pulls Healius bid as ACCC blocks pathology shake-up
Australian Clinical Labs, the No.3 player in the pathology market, has not given up in its chase for ailing No.2 player Healius.
- Simon Evans
Mike Baird flags HammondCare exit
If Peter Dutton was hoping to recruit Mike Baird to run for the Liberals in a teal-held NSW seat, he had better get started now.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Chemist Warehouse deal will make Sigma stock a global attraction
The deal name, Project Orbit, says it all. Hats off to this sleepy wholesaler for rocketing into the large-cap universe and catching the eye of US giants.
- Anthony Macdonald
Chemist Warehouse top brass to remain in Sigma merger
The drug wholesaler and distributor took the weekend to hammer out the last details of the reverse takeover by the pharmacy giant.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How Chemist Warehouse’s backdoor deal passes ASX pub test
How do you backdoor list a big company that is majority owned by two founders and their families and still have enough free float? Now, we have the answer.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Eight-year quest to float Chemist Warehouse ends abruptly
Missing Chemist Warehouse’s IPO would be a career limiting move. But when the whole street misses it, play on.
- Anthony Macdonald
Medibank Private secures binding deal to lift Myhealth stake
It is understood the listed insurer will go from owning about 33.3 per cent of the GP clinics chain to 66.66 per cent at a $260 million valuation.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Soul Patts-backed IPO hopeful Nicolab back in front of investors
The Amsterdam-based medtech is back on the fund-raising trail just seven months after its last cash call.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Why it’s so hard to make money from blood tests
There’s restructuring ahead at the No. 2 pathology provider Healius, which despite its activist ructions, has yielded a 30 per cent return since its 2023 low.
- Simon Evans
Mesoblast taps Bell Potter for $98m equity raising
The biotech company launched its latest raising on Friday morning to fund clinical trials.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
November
Quadrant’s Partnered Health buys psychology platform
The private equity firm has signed a deal to bring New View Psychology, a 17-year-old business that connects organisations with psychologists, into its stables.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
TPG Capital extracts bumper $575m dividend from Greencross
The capital return for the Petbarn company comes as the softer economic environment makes it harder for private equity to sell companies.
- Primrose Riordan
Court blocks telehealth consultations for euthanasia
Federal Court judge says a Commonwealth law banning the use of the phone or internet to “counsel” suicide prevails over state laws.
- Michael Pelly
Integral Diagnostics chair pops up for Partners Group at Cura auction
The Zug-headquartered private equity firm is serious about its tilt as it jostles with Intermediate Capital Group and a Medibank/Macquarie consortium.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Meet the Fast Starters building healthcare empires
Health companies make up about 10 per cent of this year’s list, reflecting demand for better, cheaper and more convenient access to products and services.
- Ronald Mizen
