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Government allocates $920m pa for Smart Cities infrastructure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... improving safety at regular road crash sites), heavy vehicle safety, bridges maintenance and maintenance of national transport networks. Specifically, the Budget provisions for $261 million to the Perth Freight Link, $490 million to the Perth Forrestfield-Airport ...

VanEck global infrastructure ETF goes live

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
VanEck has provided further details around its launch of Australia's first global infrastructure ETF on the Australian Securities Exchange today. The VanEck Vectors FTSE Global Infrastructure (Hedged) ETF tracks the FTSE Developed Core Infrastructure ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
Australia taxation revenue The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that Australia's total taxation revenue increased by 2.3% to A$445,965 million in fiscal year 2014/15 from A$435,892 million in 2013/14. Taxes on income - ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... in consumer prices accelerated to minus 1.0% from minus 0.8% in February due largely to a 5.9% drop in private road transport cost and a 4.2% fall in housing and utilities. Core inflation - which excludes private road transport costs and accommodation ...

AustralianSuper launches new SRI investment option

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... companies like AGL, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Seven Group and Wesfarmers excluded, while some global utilities will remain. Transport companies responsible for moving much of Australia's coal exports will also remain. Members of the new option will also ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... Core inflation - which in Singapore includes food and energy but excludes the costs of accommodation and private road transport - picked up to 0.5% in the year to February - the highest since October last year's 0.6% annual rate - from 0.4% in the previous ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... been addressed, institutions were turning their attention to disruptive forces - the likes of which have reshaped the transport, hospitability and retail industries - with gusto. "The acceleration of change is driven by a burning platform. There is the ...

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... December - worse than the worst estimate for a 3.0% decline. It could be reasoned that this has been pulled down by the transport orders component - down by 12.4% in the month - but even the orders "ex-transport" numbers came in sharply lower (down 1.2%) ...

Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... generate steady income streams over many years that increase in line with inflation," the Cbus statement said. Motoring and transport infrastructure has been an area of focus this week with reports that MTAA Super's 2015 return of 9.5% for its MyAuto ...

CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... estimates that more than 50% of NSW consumers have used a digitally enabled shared product or service that includes transport, accommodation, education, employment and finance.