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FREE BLOG Canadian pension funds sniffing around healthcare

We know that there is no shortage of institutional money destined for healthcare. For long term and defensively minded funds the attractions are obvious. The glut may also be about to grow as Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) joins the consortium looking to take Chinese operator, iKang, private. OTPP was also interested in the German lab group, synlab, last year. So are investors increasingly building portfolios across European and Emerging Market healthcare?
January 8, 2016

SPS builds Swiss nursing home arm

Swiss real estate group Swiss Prime Site (SPS) is buying nursing home operator Senior Care from property and hotel operator Boas-Yakhin, in French-speaking Switzerland, for an undisclosed amount. That allows Tertianum Group, SPS’s operating arm in the assisted living sector that claims to be the largest Swiss elderly care provider by revenue, to expand its network nationally.
December 18, 2015

Confinimmo spends €60m in Germany and the Netherlands

Belgian REIT Cofinimmo, which owns a portfolio worth over €3.3bn, has bought several medical offices in the Netherlands for €29.5m with yields ranging between 7% and 8.3%. Earlier this week, it also acquired the Kaiser Karl rehabilitation clinic in Bonn, Germany for €30m as well, to be rented to 800-bed German operator Eifelhöhen-Klinik AG under a 25-year double net lease, for an initial yield of 7.32%.
December 18, 2015

Unicare moves into rehab

Unicare, one of three largest Norwegian private operators, has moved into rehabilitation, buying Fram, a hospital near Oslo. Unicare CEO Tom Tidemann told Healthcare Europa that he plans to enter new areas of healthcare in Norway as the private sector expands.
December 11, 2015

Alloheim snaps up Senator

The German care market is reaching new heights of consolidation after Dusseldorf-based Alloheim acquired Senator Group of Lübeck. A well-placed source says the price paid was a “rich one” at around 8-10 times EBITDA. The combined group will have around 15,000 beds. That would leave it in third position behind Korian and Orpea who have been expanding into Germany at breakneck speed.
December 11, 2015

Interview: Mark Britnell, Chairman and Senior Partner for the Global Health Practice, KPMG

Author of the recently published book In Search of The Perfect Health System, Mark has got through three passports in six years as he tours the world looking at healthcare systems. We talk to him about uberisation, telehealth, innovation in elderly care and the role of private healthcare providers as governments around the world roll out statutory healthcare insurance.
December 10, 2015

FREE BLOG Usability and design in healthcare comes of age

One reason why projects in healthcare services fail is poor usability. Telehealthcare, patient apps, medicalised homecare - it is easy to launch schemes which patients and practitioners find hard to use. That can have a huge impact on results. But specialists focused on the sector are beginning to emerge.
December 4, 2015

Pihlajalinna plans war chest

Having IPOed as recently as June 2015, Finnish healthcare group Pihlajalinna is to ask shareholders for a mandate to issue an extra €40m in shares. The shares have soared 70% above the IPO price to over €17. A €40m issue would leave the company with €70m of net cash. What might the company buy and what does the move tell us about the Finnish market?
November 27, 2015

French line up for Poland

The French are queuing up to buy Poland’s largest care home operator say several sources. That should put a rocket under the Polish elderly care market.
November 27, 2015
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