ASX Announcements
Market Sensitive
Leadership Changes and Strategic Realignment
Company Administration - Other
- Jan 31, 2025
- 2 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - RHC
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Jan 7, 2025
- 6 pages
Notification of cessation of securities - RHC
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Jan 7, 2025
- 4 pages
January
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
10 CEOs under the pump in 2025
Overextended stockmarket valuations equal heightened investor expectations. The market has these 10 chief executives in its sights.
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Health insurers baulk at Labor pitch to expand maternity cover
Changes floated by the Health Department include forcing funds to pay more for hospital-in-the-home programs to take pressure off private hospitals.
- Michael Smith
‘Don’t be a hero’: why investors should stick to buying winners
MST has urged clients to resist snapping up last year’s worst performing ASX stocks as value seekers sift through the rubble in the hope of finding a comeback kid.
- Alex Gluyas
December 2024
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Doctors say health insurers have too much control over home care
The AMA is warning that Australia is at risk of adopting “US-style managed care” where insurance companies call all the shots.
- Michael Smith
Mark Butler’s health problem with no fix
The health minister is in the middle of an almighty fight between private hospitals and the health insurers, and he’s facing a difficult decision in the lead up to the election.
- Michael Smith
Private hospitals split over industry’s demand for emergency funding
Two not-for-profit groups say they are opposed to calls from bigger players like Ramsay Health Care for more money, or the introduction of $200 visit fees.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Private hospitals want $200 per visit fee to head off funding crisis
Operators of major private health facilities say it is their only option if they aren’t handed $1.3 billion in emergency funding by the federal government
- Michael Smith
Insurers warn of premium hikes after losing NSW bed rate battle
Private health insurers have caved to pressure from the Minns government to pay higher hospital bed rates following a protracted campaign.
- Michael Smith
November 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Ramsay’s riddle the high point of AGM season mixed messages
What we saw at the private hospital giant’s annual meeting on Tuesday doesn’t make sense. Good luck to the new CEO.
- Anthony Macdonald
Ramsay resists investor pressure to dump international hospitals
The private hospital giant’s chairman David Thodey says he cannot rule out offshore asset sales, but shareholders want more certainty.
- Michael Smith
Ramsay investors push for shake-up of ‘failed’ overseas expansion
The country’s largest private hospital operator is facing demands from shareholders to discard international operations and focus on its local facilities.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
‘They can afford to pay’: Strike to hit private hospital giant
Nurses and midwives at Ramsay Health Care will strike at 17 hospitals in NSW for 24 hours on Tuesday demanding a 20 per cent pay increase.
- David Marin-Guzman
Health insurers warn of closures without 6pc premium hike
Health funds have asked Labor to allow big premium rises as the amount they charge policyholders is not keeping pace with healthcare inflation.
- Michael Smith
First private nurses strikes, as ‘Pied Piper’ effect hits
The first strikes by medical staff at private hospitals follow mass walkouts at public medical centres by nurses as wages pressure bleeds from one sector to another.
- David Marin-Guzman
Private hospitals warn of more closures after Labor refuses bailout
Health Minister Mark Butler has told struggling private hospital operators to sort out their own problems and resolve differences with insurers.
- Michael Smith
October 2024
Insurer HCF bows to NSW pressure on hospital bed rates
Insurers say they are being held hostage by the NSW government which is threatening to hike taxes if they do not pay more to use public hospital beds.
- Michael Smith
Labor hints it will not back steep rise in health insurance premiums
Health Minister Mark Butler says insurers seeking premium increases may be asked to “sharpen their pencils” as cost-of-living pressures bite.
- Michael Smith
The mental health crisis gripping Australia’s private hospitals
Some health insurers say stand-alone mental health hospitals are unlikely to exist in 10 years’ time given the challenges they face.
- Jemima Whyte and Michael Smith
Ramsay calls for insurance shake-up as hospital bailout hopes sink
Ramsay Health Care says it is not expecting the federal government to bail out loss-making hospitals.
- Michael Smith
Hospitals says insurance premium hikes will not fix funding crisis
Private hospital operators also call for changes to the way in which the funding insurers contribute to the healthcare system is calculated.
- Michael Smith