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Infrastructure receives $75 billion boost

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... $500 million to upgrade regional trains and $30 million for a rail link from the Melbourne CBD to Tullamarine Airport; Geelong Rail Line and the North East Rail Line each receiving $100 million, and $20.2 million for the Murray Basin Rail; Queensland ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... to collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) backed by subprime mortgages back in the days when the GFC only stood for the Geelong Football Club.

Agricultural investors create $10 million VC fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... SproutX has received $1 million in initial funding from the Victorian government to open a pre-accelerator program based in Geelong. The pre-accelerator will accept 100 applicants from across Australia to nurture and commercialise the best new ideas ...

Registrations for Adviser Big Day Out VICTAS closing soon

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... attendance and morning tea and lunch are also provided. The tour travels to Traralgon on Tuesday 10 May then heads to Geelong on Wednesday 11 May, Ballarat on Thursday 12 May, Launceston on Tuesday 17 May, Hobart on Wednesday 18 May, Albury on Tuesday ...

SIV opens door to China for fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... for BMW and Mercedes-Benz. According to Martin, they made serious inquiries into buying Ford's manufacturing plant in Geelong which is set to close next year. Had it gone ahead, the deal might've saved the jobs of hundreds of workers, all thanks to the ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... Born in the Riverina in New South Wales, Gillespie left the countryside when she was 14 to go to a boarding school in Geelong. She then moved to Melbourne and studied a degree in econometrics, majoring in statistics, with Monash University. After that ...

PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... has been the hardest - but most valuable - career lesson. Born in a small village in South Australia, Crafter moved to Geelong as a child; and later studied statistics in the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. "I found statistics interesting ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... is also the level the VIX was trading at between 2005 up to early 2007 - the time when people only know the GFC as the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis; the time when you, I and Irene (and even governments and central banks) ...

Aon opens new offices in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
... The appointment of Lambros Lambrou as chief executive of Aon Australia has been followed by the opening of offices in Geelong, Springwood by the beginning of next year. The decision to establish a presence in these regions follows increased interest ...

Australian stocks weaker at close

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... and BHP Billiton two cents lower at $33.77. Meanwhile, retailer Target has hinted jobs will be cut at its head office in Geelong. Shares in parent company Wesfarmers fell 61 cents to $37.97. Fairfax Media shares fell one cent to 59 cents after it announced ...