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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... deflation that has wracked Japan's economy for years. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares fell, led by Mainfreight after the transport group posted quarterly earnings that missed some estimates. The NZX 50 Index fell 9.69 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 3330.33. ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

IFM wins $500m CalSTRS mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... tranches, an initial $300 million will be invested immediately in core infrastructure assets such as regulated utilities, transport and other cash-yielding, inflation-hedged infrastructure investments. A second tranche of $200 million is expected to ...

AMP sells insurance arm to Suncorp

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... capability in 2001. AMP General Insurance currently has distribution agreements in place with Suncorp's GIO brand, National Transport Insurance and CGU. The sale is expected to be completed on 31 December.

AMP Capital wins UK pension fund mandate

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011

Sunsuper appoints State Street as custodian

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
State Street Global Services has landed the role of custodian for $18 billion super fund, Sunsuper and will provide solutions and investment servicing for the local market. After around nine months of due diligence, State Street will now provide a suite ...

ASFA: Retirement costs on the rise

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... rising 5.2%. Electricity costs rose on average by 7.8%, reflecting substantial price increases in a number of states. Transport costs were little different between the quarters with an increase in the cost of motor vehicle servicing offset by a fall ...

Legg Mason appoints Senior Research Analyst

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... infrastructure analyst with Austock. In 2010 Chambers was rated 2nd in Thomson Reuters' 'StarMine Analyst Awards' for Transport Infrastructure Earnings Accuracy. Prior to Austock, Andrew was associate director project finance at Societe Generale Australia ...

Union members an industry fund minority

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... unionised sectors are education with 40% union membership, followed by utilities on 38%, government administration on 34%, transport on 30%, health on 27%, mining on 22% and construction on 18%. Sub-sectors within these grouping can, however, report ...

Infra transport spending to jump 123%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
Australian transport infrastructure spending is tipped to more than double to $41 billion over the next decade, but that is still only an estimated 6% of the nation's infrastructure backlog. Property specialists CBRE have just released a report detailing ...