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Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... and consumers trading down, Griffin also invests in stocks that will benefit from the government stimulus packages, such as rail stocks Vossloh and Alstom; and those that are geared up for a "carbon economy", such as Shaw Group and China High Speed Transmission. ...

Make love not leverage

Financial Fools' Day is what some 4,000 anti-everything protesters dubbed the day when leaders of the G20 meet to hold a summit on 'how do we solve a problem like the GFC?' The protesters were railing against almost every issue known to man it seems. ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Like the mythical king Sisyphus, fiscal and monetary authorities continue to push a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down. But while Sisyphus rolled the same rock over and over, the global boulder authorities are trying to push over ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... report. Asciano Ltd chief financial officer Peter McGregor will address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia on "Rail's Place in Australia's Freight Future". Finders Resources Ltd and Keybridge Capital Ltd hold their annual general meetings ...

Market wrap - midday

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market was in positive territory at noon across all sectors except materials, which is suffering from weaker commodity prices. At 1207 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 28.5 points, or 0.58 per cent, at 4,952, while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... Tinto was down $1.39, or 1.24 per cent, to $111.13. Rio has declared force majeure on some of its iron ore shipments after a rail car dumper sustained damage in Western Australia. The miner is also among a group of power generators that failed a WWF ...

B&B appoint CFO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... During his time at Babcock & Brown, he was involved in a range of transactions for the firm's funds including Australian Rail Group and eircom plc. Before joining the firm, Fanning was a partner at Ernst & Young and a director of its transaction advisory ...

Super fund asset allocation on hold

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
The country's major asset consultants said super fund trustees are not rushing to change their overall asset allocation strategies post the sub-prime crisis although some are placing fixed income assets under closer review. Financial Standard interviewed ...

Perpetual sells $250m infra funds to Palisade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... Palisade will own the management rights to Perpetual's Diversified Infrastructure fund, Regional Infrastructure fund and Rail fund, which, together represents $250 million in assets under management. Each fund remains unlisted and is expected to re-open ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... block increased transport taxes on the trucking industry. Given that low trucking taxes are one of the major reasons why rail freight is not commercially viable, Henry's comments are tremendously significant. Henry's comments follow several damning articles ...