Latest news with #Hester
Business Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Bell Potter Reaffirms Their Buy Rating on Cyclopharm Limited (CYC)
In a report released today, John Hester from Bell Potter maintained a Buy rating on Cyclopharm Limited (CYC – Research Report), with a price target of A$2.20. The company's shares closed today at A$1.14. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter According to TipRanks, Hester is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 7.1% and a 50.56% success rate. Hester covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Polynovo , Mesoblast Limited, and Telix Pharmaceuticals. The word on The Street in general, suggests a Hold analyst consensus rating for Cyclopharm Limited. The company has a one-year high of A$2.50 and a one-year low of A$1.03. Currently, Cyclopharm Limited has an average volume of 92.52K.
Business Insider
29-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Bell Potter Sticks to Their Buy Rating for Radiopharm Theranostics Limited (RAD)
In a report released today, John Hester from Bell Potter maintained a Buy rating on Radiopharm Theranostics Limited (RAD – Research Report), with a price target of A$0.05. The company's shares closed today at A$0.03. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter According to TipRanks, Hester is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 7.4% and a 50.57% success rate. Hester covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Polynovo , Mesoblast Limited, and Telix Pharmaceuticals. The analyst consensus on Radiopharm Theranostics Limited is currently a Hold rating.
ABC News
21-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
HESTA super members furious at outage
Andy Park: A planned outage at one of Australia's largest super funds has seen its members' accounts frozen for seven weeks. Hester, who has more than one million members, is changing their administration provider in an outage which will last until the first week of June. One client says he almost lost his home deposit after he was banking on his super to cover the costs, as Adelaide Miller reports. Adelaide Miller: Annette Mumford has been a member of superannuation fund Hester for decades. But that might not last much longer after the fund's planned seven-week outage. Annette Mumford: I find it very distressing and I'm just gobsmacked that they have not even notified their customers. Adelaide Miller: Miss Mumford says she didn't receive any information about the fund going offline. Annette Mumford: I was so distressed thinking, oh my gosh, because there's no time for planning because it had already closed down without me knowing in advance to make any planning if I needed to. And I called them and put in a formal complaint about two or three weeks ago and just got a lame reply back saying, oh we're really sorry that you didn't get the email. Adelaide Miller: HESTA, one of Australia's largest superfunds, is in the middle of a planned seven-week outage, affecting more than one million Australians as they transition to a new administration provider. Currently, only urgent payments may be processed, with lump sum payments of up to 80% of balances. While Hester alerted its members back in February through emails, its website and in some cases letters in the mail, dozens of customers contacted the ABC in distress, saying they had been caught out. Xavier O'halloran: Some super funds just don't have up-to-date contact details. We've spoken to Hester about this as well. They've probably got more email addresses than a lot of super funds have, but clearly there's still been issues. Adelaide Miller: CEO of Super Consumers Australia, Xavier O'Halloran, says super funds need to be doing a better job when communicating with customers, particularly when it means customers can't access much-needed funds. Xavier O'halloran: Encouraging super funds to go above and beyond in situations like this, if they are getting bounce backs, what other contact details do they have other than snail mail? Really, they should be making the effort to call people and let them know that they're going to be subject to this period of time where they won't be able to access their money and what they can do to mitigate against any harm that might cause. Adelaide Miller: He also says the length of time offline is the longest he's seen with any super fund. Xavier O'halloran: They've made some concessions to allow people to access, but we continue to hear from people who can't get through, can't get money when they need it, and as a result they're going into financial hardship. Adelaide Miller: Daniela Paidi's client is one of those people. The property lawyer remembers how distressed her client became when he realised he couldn't access his money. Daniella Paidi: We reached out to HESTA, we couldn't get on to anybody, we didn't receive a timely response or any kind of clear communication. There was the opportunity to leave an online inquiry and to make a complaint. We used both avenues really just to try and get somebody to speak to. Adelaide Miller: She says he was relying on his super to pay his deposit for a property purchase, but because he's been locked out he almost lost the $28,000 deposit. Daniella Paidi: I was able to negotiate an extension of the settlement date, but since then we've been issued with a default and rescission notice. Because of this upgrade he's been caught out and is now having to deal with the emotional and financial burden. Adelaide Miller: Ms Paidi says someone in her network was able to put her in contact with Hester and 80% of funds were deposited last week. The remainder early this week and the property was settled. A spokesperson for Hester said in a statement the fund is sorry for any inconvenience. It's continuing to support members through this period of change and the transition will provide the technology platform and data capabilities to better service members in the years ahead. But Ms Paidi says there's a lot to be learnt from this process. Daniella Paidi: The focus for Hester going forward really looking at this situation and thinking okay well we are entrusted with acting in the best interests of these clients or our people and I think you know the question should be have we acted in the best interests of our clients here and how can we do things better in the future. Andy Park: Property lawyer Daniella Paidi ending Adelaide Miller's report there.
Business Insider
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Positive Report for Paragon Care Limited (PXS) from Bell Potter
Bell Potter analyst John Hester upgraded Paragon Care Limited (PXS – Research Report) to a Buy today and set a price target of A$0.52. The company's shares closed last Friday at €0.23. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks straight to you inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter Hester covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Polynovo , Mesoblast Limited, and Telix Pharmaceuticals. According to TipRanks, Hester has an average return of 9.3% and a 53.49% success rate on recommended stocks. Paragon Care Limited has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of €0.31. The company has a one-year high of €0.32 and a one-year low of €0.20. Currently, Paragon Care Limited has an average volume of 17.
Time Out
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The Deep Blue Sea
The tried and sometimes true conveyor belt between Bath Theatre Royal to Theatre Royal Haymarket continues rumble on, bringing big old fashioned productions of big old fashioned plays with big name actors. Terence Rattigan's maudlin masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea with Tamsin Greig as tragic heroine Hester Collyer follows in the wake of A View From the Bridge (Dominic West) and The Score (Brian Cox) and lands somewhere between the two. It's never much of a chore to see this play, one of the most well made of the well made plays, with its perfect substructure of unspoken feeling and roiling passion. But it's also a play that summons a long history of brilliant performances. The most recent big one, the National Theatre production in 2016 with Helen McCrory, was pretty great. As for this, it isn't bad at all. Even though there's nothing wrong with the direction by Lindsay Posner (who also did A View From the Bridge in a similarly perfectly good way) or the rundown set by Peter McKintosh, or the day-to-night lighting by Paul Pyant, not much particularly stands out either. It all does the job – all gets out of the way of the play, and maybe that's the best thing. Let the play speak for itself. Tamsin Greig takes on the role of Hester, former wife of a judge. She's now shacked up with a young and sexy test pilot and has tried to kill herself when he forgets her birthday. Across the course of a long career in lighter and comic roles, Grieg has often brought unexpected depth and warmth. Here it's the other way around: it needs depth first and comedy second, and while Greig finds a few shattering moments – and it's great to see her go to some extreme places in her sadness and her ferocity – her Hester lacks unity. She plays every interaction on its own terms: now comic, now tragic, now sharp or desperate. The result is a hundred Hesters rather than one. There isn't a note wrong from Hadley Fraser as roguish Freddy, seducer of Hester, who loves her but makes her miserable and drinks too much. Fraser's got such incredible presence. He drapes himself over the set like he's lived there forever. He's matched by a brilliantly upstanding Nicholas Farrell, Hester's high court judge husband, who offers her a sensible, reasonable and stifling life in high society. And it's a weirdly funny production of a usually sullen play. Selina Cadell finds a laugh in most of her lines as nosy housekeeper Mrs Elton. Posner often comes close to the solidity and quiet excellence of his View From the Bridge of last year, but it's not always sustained. The result is a perfectly decent production of a pretty much perfect play.
