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Application for quotation of securities - NHF
Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)
- Oct 8, 2024
- 6 pages
Update - Dividend/Distribution - NHF
Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate, Dividend Reinvestment Plan
- Sep 26, 2024
- 5 pages
Change of Director's Interest Notice - Mark Fitzgibbon
Change of Director’s Interest Notice
- Sep 16, 2024
- 5 pages
Market Sensitive
nib MD and CEO Mark Fitzgibbon to step down 30 November
Director Appointment/Resignation, Company Administration - Other
- Sep 12, 2024
- 1 page
This Month
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Health insurers have landed in a world of pain, political or otherwise
They’re under fire from parliamentarians and hospitals for making too much profit, and yet are caught in a customer land grab that is shaving away profits.
- Michael Smith
September
Ozempic alternatives flood the Australian market
The number of Australians taking weight-loss drugs is growing as new medicines hit the market. MPs warn the influx must be managed carefully.
- Michael Smith
Insurers deny caving in to Healthscope demands
“Out-of-contract payments have not occurred in response to Brookfield and Healthscope’s heavy-handed US-style campaign,” says lobby group.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Health insurance
Healthscope forces big insurers to cough up to repair its profits
Medibank Private, NIB and HCF have agreed to out-of-cycle funding payments in the “tens of millions of dollars” for the Brookfield-owned hospital group.
- Michael Smith
August
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What I learnt from 30 CEOs in 30 days
The profit season has delivered a confusing picture of an economy stuck between cycles. Here are 30 nuggets to help investors navigate this tricky environment.
- Updated
- James Thomson
NIB says plan to fix hospital pricing ‘crazy’ as funding tensions grow
Insurers and hospitals are split on how to fix their acrimonious pricing negotiations as government reviews private health.
- Michael Smith
- Results Wrap
- Chanticleer
Why NIB caught a post-COVID cold
The private health insurer feels the heat on margins, Bendigo & Adelaide Bank gets a grilling on costs and Dan Murphy’s owner Endeavour finds some wins from AI.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why we’ll all end up taking Ozempic
Retiring NIB chief Mark Fitzgibbon on the two biggest issues facing the private health sector: the brawl between hospitals and insurers, and the future of care.
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Fixed price operations could be coming to private hospitals
Tensions between hospitals and health insurers are heating up as the federal government completes its inquiry into the struggling sector.
- Michael Smith
St Vincent’s and NIB back from the brink with new deal
Hospital group St Vincent’s has secured a new funding deal with NIB which it says will avoid thousands of patients paying higher costs.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Health insurance
Pressure for health premium overhaul in election headache for Albanese
The influential medical lobby is demanding an independent umpire to determine how high insurance premiums can rise as negotiations over the next increase begin.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Hospitals seek right to boycott big insurers from funding talks
Catholic-operated private hospitals want a major shake-up of the way they negotiate funding deals with health insurers, in an escalation of tensions between the two sides.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Weight loss
Next blockbuster weight-loss drug to launch in Australia this month
Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy is about to go on sale here, avoiding the prospect of a supply disaster when compounded Ozempic is banned.
- Updated
- Nick Bonyhady
July
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How to end the $22b private health war
Many things have changed in the 22 years that Mark Fitzgibbon has spent at the helm of NIB. The tension between private health insurers and private hospitals isn’t one of them.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Inside the stoush between private hospitals and health insurers
As finances deteriorate, insurers and providers are slugging it out over how to overhaul a healthcare system which has not seen serious reform in decades.
- Michael Smith
St Vincent’s splits with insurer NIB amid private hospitals ‘crisis’
St Vincent’s on Thursday told health fund NIB it would walk away from its contract over an entrenched pricing disagreement.
- Tom McIlroy
March
Why business leaders can’t cope with criticism
Chief executives who insist on hiring “yes people” soon forget how to present an argument in public, speechwriter and author Lucinda Holdforth claims.
- Sally Patten
January
Short nothing and long lithium: the hedge fund breaking all the rules
Auscap’s Tim Carleton and Will Mumford’s long-only bets generated strong returns for their fund last year. They are also not worried about the Pilbara Minerals short sellers.
- Joshua Peach
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Cybersecurity is the No.1 risk not getting the attention it deserves
Australia’s top CEOs say the risk of cyberattacks and the healthcare demands of an ageing population are being ignored or underplayed.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
December 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why the work from home debate is entering a new phase
Australia’s top CEOs have accepted flexible work is here to stay. But almost four years on from the pandemic, there are growing questions about productivity, culture and career development.
- Updated
- James Thomson