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Endowment bond product frees SMSFs to add risk

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... see endowment bonds potentially being used to guarantee an annual income for basic living essentials like housing, electricity and food. "If the market crashes, retirees then have the flexibility to defer drawing on their investments for lifestyle purchases ...

IFM opens Berlin office, appoints senior adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... chief executive Brett Himbury said. In Germany, IFM has an existing stake in 50Hertz Transmission, one of the four electricity transmission system operators in the country, which supplies power to more than 18 million people and companies. IFM has also ...

Climate change already affecting investments: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013

ESG risks can wipe $21.4bn off sharemarket: study

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... that hadn't been studied before. "There are concerns about bank fees and how that would play, concerns about raising electricity prices and how that affects companies now and regulating utilities in the future," she said. The paper received the Best ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... December, official data showed, while a wider measure of industrial production that includes mining and quarrying, electricity, gas and water supply dropped by 1.2 per cent in January from December. HONG KONG - Asian markets fell as profit takers reversed ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... all, the government announced plans to reduce the payroll tax, auction infrastructure projects and a reduction in electricity tariffs this year. All good...except for inflation. It's on the up and up again. After declining to a low of 4.86% back in May ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... $32,555 a year. These figures are up on the December 2011 amounts of $55,249 a year and $31,675 a year, respectively. "Electricity, food, health, transportation and recreation spending form a large part of retiree budgets. The differences in the composition ...

AMP to raise $1 billion for 2nd infra debt fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... Infrastructure Debt Fund II (IDF) invests in the subordinated debt of infrastructure assets in the water, gas and electricity sectors, as well as transportation, in Europe, North America and Australia. The fund - known as IDF II - follows on from the ...

Hastings grows European infra team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... transactions, building teams and originating, structuring and syndicating debt financing packages, particularly in electricity, gas and renewable energy. The appointment adds to the hires earlier this year of former Westpac Institutional team members ...

Sluggish growth the new norm: Janus

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... compared with the developed market globally. Also providing a major drogue on EU productivity, adds Wellso are exorbitant electricity and transport costs, insufficient subsidies and the GST cost. She says the structural changes needed to fix the EU's ...