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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 ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... billion for capital investment in infrastructure, education and health to strengthen the economy. In infrastructure - in roads, rail, ports and broadband. In education. In skills, TAFE colleges and universities. In health and hospitals. And to build ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... WA Chamber of Commerce last Wednesday said, "It's time to set our eyes on addressing the nation's long term needs in road, rail, ports and other infrastructure. "The funds that we allocate to the nation's infrastructure challenges in next week's Budget ...

Di Bartolomeo joins AustralianSuper board

... president and national vice-president. He holds several directorships under his belt, including positions with the Australian Rail Track Corporation, the Parklands Foundation, Downer EDI and Reliance Rail. Most recently, Di Bartolomeo was managing director ...