ASX Announcements
nib confirms transition period for retiring MD and CEO
Director Appointment/Resignation, Company Administration - Other
- Jul 29, 2024
- 1 page
Market Sensitive
nib MD and CEO Mark Fitzgibbon announces retirement
Director Appointment/Resignation
- Jul 29, 2024
- 4 pages
Notice of Briefing - 2024 Full Year Results
Notification of Results/Reporting Date, Web Casts
- Jul 17, 2024
- 1 page
Yesterday
- 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
This Month
- 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
NIB shares drop as NDIS review ends ‘ticket clipping’
The NDIS review has recommended a transition away from plan management, ending the lucrative business of paying invoices and managing budgets.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- Retail
Health, the new frontier for Wesfarmers, Woolworths
Wesfarmers and Woolworths are uniquely positioned to disrupt the health sector by building ecosystems in partnership with insurers and care providers, says Jarden.
- Sue Mitchell
November 2023
Australia’s top corporate givers revealed
Woolworths, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and health insurer NIB were among the companies to record a surge in philanthropy in 2023.
- Sally Patten
A pet crocodile is the least interesting thing about this CEO
ERA chief Brad Welsh has worked in child protection services, the Prime Minister’s Office and shares a house with a baby croc.
- Peter Ker
August 2023
Brace for higher health insurance premiums, NIB boss says
While increases will stay well short of the super-sized increases in car and home insurance, Mark Fitzgibbon says the days of low premium growth are gone
- Lucas Baird
July 2023
Medibank to become more conservative after capital hit: analysts
Special dividends, and even acquisitions, could be off the table after the health insurer was forced to tie up capital by the prudential regulator.
- James Eyers
May 2023
NatWest prepares auction for NSW land registry stake, RBC mandated
London’s NatWest Group Pension Fund has hired RBC Capital Markets to drum up buyers for its roughly 20 per cent interest in NSW land titles operator.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Nib’s Honeysuckle checks out 24-7 Healthcare
Crescent Capital Partners has had bankers at Rothschild drumming up interest in the mobile primary care provider since April.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
April 2023
Why insurer NIB wants to clean up the NDIS
A whole cottage industry of payments providers and plan managers has popped up around the disability scheme, keen to clip the ticket between participant and service provider.
- Anthony Macdonald
March 2023
Why investors are swapping banks for insurers
Analysts say the momentum within the financials sector has shifted from the big four to the insurers.
- Emma Rapaport
