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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 ...

Cranky customers over choked supply chain

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... grave" coal ship queues at Newcastle and Dalrymple Bay and will be attending an all-day briefing with coal mining and transport companies, before seeing the Premier and Treasurer. According to the managing director of Nippon Steel, NSW and Queensland ...

Economic round-up: Lead balloon lifts exports

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2007
... was $207 billion compared to just under $192 billion the previous year, equating to an 8.3 per cent increase. While transport bottlenecks and the dollar's rising value continue hitting some businesses hard, the increasing demand in volumes and higher ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... need to spend on infrastructure. "There is a serious backlog in infrastructure investment, in water, energy and land transport, estimated conservatively at $25 billion, which requires immediate attention, " CEDA said. The CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology ...

Economic round-up: Economists weather forecast

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... will be the driver of yet faster economic growth with ever increasing demand from Asia and record commodity prices. But transport backlogs and bottlenecks at some of the country's biggest shipping ports remain a risk to future business and a dead weight ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... infrastructure is beginning to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout the state while earlier this week 51 ships were queued for a backlog of ...

Use super for national interests: Weaven

... need to accumulate investments across the full range of risk and return profiles." Among the sectors Weaven named were transport, logistics, power generation and telecommunications, all of which are currently under-invested according to the business ...