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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 ...

Challenger takes part in $9.5bn infrastructure buy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... Capital is the fastest growing of the ten water and sewerage companies in the UK. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, transport and utility industry deals in the world have increased by 23 per cent or by $400 billion this year compared to a year ...

Retirement gets more expensive: ASFA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
The cost of maintaining a 'modest' standard of living in retirement has increased by 8.8 per cent in the last three years, and a comfortable retirement by 8.1 per cent, according to the latest Westpac ASFA Retirement Standard survey. The increases mean ...

The big bounce

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... points to 5926.50. It is the best one-day rally for both indices since October 1997 with gains led by the banks. Our transport sector is expecting a bounce of its own today following a rally in US transport stocks. There were sighs of relief all around ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... number of new legislative fast-track initiatives to streamline its infrastructure project approvals. Concerns over public transport failures have prompted the country's most powerful mayors to lobby the Federal Government to introduce fringe benefits ...