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ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... resulted in a significant slowdown in sectors like mining, property and manufacturing. But others such as health care, IT, transport and conservation are thriving. Investments in different sectors of the Chinese economy mirror this phenomenon, which ...

VFMC appoints new chairman

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Yancoal Australia; and chairman of Gloucester Coal and Pacific Brands. MacKenzie was also previously chairman of the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) and Worksafe Victoria; managing director of funds management and insurance at ANZ Banking Group ...

Infrastructure returns beat equities, bonds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... equity value of the global infrastructure market at approximately $32 billion. The results are divided into power and transport sub-sectors, which returned 16.1% and 21.5% respectively in the same period. Geographical infrastructure asset allocation ...

FEATURE: The infrastructure love story

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... says without an increase in both public and private funding of infrastructure, and market reforms to strengthen the transport and water sectors, "we won't have the infrastructure that a growing population and our globally-focused economy deserve." According ...

4 Corners hires ahead of infrastructure fund launch

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... the Australian equities and infrastructure teams. Jones was responsible for coverage of infrastructure, utilities and transport companies. He previously worked as a quantitative developer with UBS in Zurich, Switzerland. 4 Corners Infrastructure was ...

FIIG to arrange record bond issue

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
National transport and logistics company SCT Logistics will undertake Australia's largest unrated bond issue for a private business through a dual-tenor issue of $75-85 million. The issue, which will be arranged by FIIG Securities, comprises two types ...

IOOF ripe for takeover, fund manager says

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... million for private clients and boutique financial advice firms. It is also exposed to telecoms, media, agriculture, transport, real estate and infrastructure.

Early release super approvals increasing

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... As of April more than 16,000 early release applications had been received this financial year. Medical treatment and transport topped the list at 7,422 applications. About 78% of medical treatment and transport applications were approved. Of the 5,800 ...

Groups call for default super fund decoupling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... employees a choice of superannuation fund should not be repealed. The Commission said it received submissions from the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) concerning choice of superannuation fund prior to the Interim Report. However the issue yet to be addressed ...

ANZ taps clean investing with green bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
Clean investing gains momentum in Australia as ANZ issues its first green bond and Local Government Super (LGS) joins the global Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC). ANZ's first green bond will fund projects that have positive environmental or ...