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Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... topic of Productive Reform in a Federal System nearly two-and-a-half years ago, I identified energy, water and land transport as three key candidates for the development of national markets," he said. "I suggested that 'it may not be too much of an exaggeration ...

Raise the pension, says seniors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... everything else," said Micahel O'Neill, National Seniors chief executive. "However as costs on basics such as food, transport, healthcare and utilities continue to climb, segments of the older population are really struggling." The consumer body is urging ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... We had discussed the challenges posed by our highly dispersed yet heavily urbanised population geography, with land transport under stress, including in the cities." They also knew the problems that our dysfunctional Commonwealth-State relations were ...

UBS Aus equities will deliver: Shields

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... from Colonial First State where he was a small companies analyst and previously worked at Citigroup as an associate transport analyst. Simon Shields was appointed head of Australian equities at UBS last year after Fiani's departure. "This should give ...

Fed govt tightens foreign investment rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... examine if particular foreign investment projects in Australia could impact national interests in telecommunications, transport, national security, economic development and existing foreign policy legislation. The treasurer can reject proposals deemed ...

Magellan builds infrastructure team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... as an academic at the University of New South Wales' school of banking and finance. Webster focused primarily on the transport and infrastructure sectors during his tenure at Capital Partners. His research responsibilities included ports, toll roads ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... air-conditioning fleet. Nonetheless, evaporative air is up from only 14 per cent in 2002. Only 14 per cent of people use public transport to get to work, which helps explain why the average number of cars per household is also gently on the rise. The ...

AIF CIO jumps ship to Asciano

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... officer, Peter McGregor, announced his resignation yesterday as he prepares to assume the role of director, commercial at transport infrastructure company, Asciano. McGregor has also resigned as a director of Australian Infrastructure Fund Limited (AIFL) ...

Resources boom gone in three years: Putnam

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
New transport and resources infrastructure arriving in the next three to four years could lead to the end of the current global resources boom, according to Shigeki Makino, Putnam Investments chief investment officer of global core equities. He said ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Standard and Poor's has launched three new Shariah law-compliant indices, targeting infrastructure, healthcare and large-midcap stocks. The three indices are the S&P Global Infrastructure Shariah, S&P Global Healthcare Shariah, and S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap ...