Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 51 - 60 of 152 results for %22Tim Plant%22

Chief economist update: Cheaper oil greases wheels of growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... economic growth. They reduce business input costs, increasing margins, lifting profits and by extension, business investment in plant, equipment, and staff. Higher oil prices are a de facto tax on income that limits consumption while at the same time ...

Swiss asset manager eyes Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... and a cheap system," van Daele said. "It is cheaper today to build a solar farm in the sunny regions than to build a coal plant. Two years ago that wasn't the case," he said. SUSI's four existing funds are now closed, with about 65 institutional ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... economic growth. They reduce business input costs, increasing margins, lifting profits and by extension, business investment in plant, equipment, and staff. Higher oil prices are a de facto tax on income that limits consumption while at the same time ...

Industry fund and CommInsure unveil digital claims process

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... Noroeste (Aunor), a mature shadow toll road located in Murcia, Spain, and a 100% acquisition of a Norwegian waste-to-energy plant. Baird said at the time: "The change in approach and restructuring of the portfolio around seven years ago is delivering ...

Venture capital firm plants $1.8m seed for Honee

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
One of Australia's largest venture capital firms recently placed significant seed funding in an AI-driven beauty platform showing ambition and drive to expand internationally. Blackbird Ventures, alongside Melbourne and Sydney angel investors, led the ...

RARE partners with WaterAid

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
Global listed infrastructure fund manager RARE Infrastructure is continuing its partnership with international non-profit organisation WaterAid by funding the development of infrastructure projects in East Timor. The project will provide tanks, water ...

Where in the cycle is Australia?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... bite them in their collective behinds - cutting revenues, greater discounting, pink slips, less investment in structures, plant and equipment...and down the drain we go. That's where we are and we're were headed unless the RBA and the government takes ...

Jobs galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... numbers that came just in the nick of time for the estimated 900 workers who'll be finishing at Holden's car manufacturing plant in Adelaide today. For as that door closes, another opens. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) "Labour Force" report ...

Divergent business confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... while at the same time raising operating costs among businesses, reducing their margins and by extension, investment in plant & equipment and on staffing. This will continue to gnaw at business confidence until the Federal government comes up with a ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... improvement in consumer confidence as buoyant business conditions and more optimistic businesses increase expenditures on plant & equipment and on staff hiring and presumably offering higher wages Leading indicators in the recent NAB survey provide an ...