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Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... 6.0% over the three-month period and the cost of meat and seafood up by 2.0% over the quarter - as "Bushfires increased transport costs for some fresh produce and strong export demand combined with falling supply resulted in further price rises for meat". ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... argued these should include improving the national broadband network, improving Australian Post efficiency and port/road transport, encouraging the use of robust technologies to limit the spread of the virus, labour intensive programs that improve local ...

Calls for super funds, government to collaborate on energy security

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
The federal government on Wednesday took advantage of the low oil prices to establish Australia's first sovereign energy reserve, and superannuation funds can help, according to an expert. Energy minister Angus Taylor said the government will buy ...

Liquid and ready: Cbus

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... of the CBD. The office building, located at 83 Pirie Street, will house the South Australian department of planning, transport and infrastructure. Atkin said the new development would support up to 2000 construction jobs as the country recovers from ...

Listed infrastructure mispriced: FSI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... Greenup said he expects companies in the asset class to weather the storm, pointing to their robust balance sheets. "While transport infrastructure is facing an ugly lockdown period, these long-dated assets with robust business models will survive this ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... global governments curtailing activity in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19 will see oil use in air and land transport severely curbed, though the quantum of volume loss is difficult to determine given uncertainty around the duration of the slowdown ...

Macquarie shares halve in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... pandemic. It cannot," he said. "Only through proper health policies: temperature checks at every building, and on public transport, rapid testing for all suspected cases, mandatory quarantine for suspected cases and contact tracing for all confirmed ...

Industry fund awards infrastructure mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
An industry fund has allocated about $27 million to an unlisted infrastructure fund from First Sentier, as it diversifies its portfolio. Christian Super invested €15 million (about $27.4 million) to the First Sentier European Diversified Infrastructure ...

Active managers: Opportunities abound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
While COVID-19 may have some reeling from uncertainty, active managers are seeing it as their time to shine as opportunities for growth crop up. T. Rowe Price's head of investments, Robert Sharps, said while he is not seeing any wholesale change from ...

Global stocks plunge as COVID-19 fear accelerates, oil crashes

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Global markets, already feeling the burn from the spreading COVID-19 virus, have tumbled further, after Saudi Arabia sparked an oil price war which saw oil futures plunge more than 30%. Nearly $140 billion was wiped from the S&P/ASX 200 yesterday, as ...