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...US private equity groups Advent International and Warburg Pincus have agreed to buy a unit of healthcare giant Baxter International that sells sterilised needles used in drug trials and childbirth for $4.25bn...
...Some sector skews are still evident, but they are far from extreme: industrials, healthcare and financials each made up about 16 per cent of the index....
...Baxter suggests setting up an Isa. “Unneeded funds can be put towards other things.”...
...(laughter) Dave Baxter(laughter) Yeah. So that has lots of, for example, healthcare stocks and financial stocks as well. But yeah that’s the structure of the list....
...Advent and Warburg Pincus have also turned to private credit managers for a nearly $2bn loan to fund their purchase of a division of healthcare company Baxter International....
...By supporting investment in areas such as healthcare, technology and clean energy, a growing number of exchange traded funds promote themselves as delivering rewards to both society and investors....
...It has large sector allocations to financials and healthcare, but the fund is also prepared to back bombed-out shares that are typically more associated with growth investing: Meta was its biggest portfolio...
...This might be a case in point: the fund, which recently had nearly 400 holdings, did have a substantial healthcare allocation as some might expect, accounting for about half of its assets....
...This has had a notable effect already: the tech sector was the largest payer of dividends in the S&P 500 last year, contributing about 17 per cent of its overall income versus 15 per cent for healthcare,...
...Baxter is a US healthcare company in need of a pick me up. Its two biggest units — renal care and drug-delivery systems — accounted for more than half of the company’s $11.7bn sales last year....
...Other topics covered in the two-day event include investing for income, investment trusts, healthcare and using ETFs within your portfolio....
...Baxter International, the medical technology group, has agreed to buy rival equipment company Hillrom for $12.4bn, including debt, the latest in a series of megadeals in the medical devices and healthcare...
...reiterated some of the thematic ETF suggestions they made last year, including EMQQ Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce UCITS ETF (EMQQ), HAN-GINS Tech Megatrend Equal Weight UCITS ETF (ITEK) and iShares Healthcare...
...Healthcare companies have been a particularly active part of the market....
...“We did suspend the buyback last year because of uncertainty,” James Saccaro, chief financial officer of healthcare company Baxter, said at a conference on Tuesday, but the company returned to the market...
...An accelerated adoption of digital services has worked out nicely for the tech sector, while healthcare names have also received a boost for the time being....
...VBI’s chief executive Jeff Baxter said it could be with the regulators for consideration in 12 to 14 months....
...“It’s just everything that we can do just to keep our keep our head above water,” Ms Baxter said....
...He added that his broad industry experience — including time at Eli Lilly and medical technology company Baxter — would help him “challenge internal thinking”....
...Baxter, a US healthcare company that supplies the NHS with kit to treat patients with renal failure, said that demand for its products had tripled....
...“The market for outsourced NHS services is a difficult one,” said Vernon Baxter, managing director of HealthInvestor, an industry magazine and website....
...Vernon Baxter, managing editor of HealthInvestor publications and conferences, said: “Today’s news should simplify the corporate structure and make a sale of the business more straightforward....
...agency CRG Healthcare, for an undisclosed amount....
...Vernon Baxter, managing director of Healthcare Investor conferences and publishing, said the 24 care homes were a “high quality portfolio that will attract plenty of interest”....
...Saline bags have been in short supply in the US since 2014 after a series of quality control problems caused capacity constraints at the three main manufacturers — Baxter Healthcare, Hospira Infusion Systems...
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