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Former Regal healthcare PM hangs up his shingle

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Sep 24, 2024 – 5.00am

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Two former Regal stock pickers are set to launch a long/short fund that will hunt for the best (or worst) healthcare companies listed in Australia and Asia, after securing a $70 million-plus cheque from an overseas institutional investor.

Street Talk understands Regal’s healthcare portfolio manager Craig Collie, who left the firm in April, is busy setting up a speciality fund alongside former colleague Madusha Dilshan Seneviratna. Both trained as medical doctors before jumping ship to funds management.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.