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NAB launches Australia's first certified climate bond

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... renewable energy assets financed by the climate bond are expected to have an installed capacity of over 1.5 gigawatts of electricity in aggregate - the equivalent of an estimated 3.9 million tonnes of avoided greenhouse gas emissions. That is enough ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... lower prices should support the government's efforts to reduce subsidies (it has already freed some gas prices, and electricity prices are expected to follow next year)." Not only that. This one from Bloomberg, "This is a golden time window to acquire ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... quarter from 3.0% in the three-months to June period. To be sure, much of the drop was accounted for by the 5.1% drop in electricity prices - which is transitory due to the removal of the carbon tax - but automotive fuel prices did fall by 2.5% over ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... investors. Pacific Edge led the decline, paced by Xero, though Infratil gained on news it had sold its Australian electricity operations for $A605 million ($NZ669 million).

AMP adds listed infra to SMSF Suite

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... invests in what it calls "core and pure" listed infrastructure assets such as water utilities, oil and gas pipelines, electricity transmission and distribution, as well as transportation infrastructure such as airports, toll roads and seaports. Since ...

NSW govt promises $60 billion infrastructure spend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... election, and would rely on continued income from the 'asset recycling program', including from the partial lease of NSW's electricity distribution network. The majority of the projects named in the budget are greenfield construction projects rather ...

Wanted: $20bn electricity investor for NSW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
The NSW government parliamentary caucus has agreed to a sell-off part of its state's electricity poles and wires distribution network, with an expected sale price of $20 billion to be presented to institutional investors. The agreement was reached after ...

Power sell off approved by NSW govt

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
The NSW government has approved the multi-billion dollar partial sale of its electricity network assets and will take the controversial policy to the next election. Coalition MPs agreed to privatise 49 per cent of the poles and wires assets on 99-year ...

Super sector eyes Qld ports and generators

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... Tuesday. The report flags a number of assets for sale or long-term lease, including Townsville and Gladstone Ports, two electricity generation assets, and a water distribution network. Both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

Would Baird premiership mean 'poles and wires' sale?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
If Mike Baird becomes the new Premier of New South Wales, the privatisation of the state's electricity distribution infrastructure - the 'poles and wires' - may be back on the agenda. The sale of infrastructure assets would provide significant investment ...