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Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... Infrastructure Australia should have increased powers to drive priorities, develop more competitive national markets in areas such as water, electricity and transport and ensure market-based pricing of scarce resources such as water. In recognition of ...

CBA still seeding Colonial funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... business yesterday Grahame Petersen said the bank had sold down two thirds of the original $1.25 billion investment in Anglia Water Group in Britain. At December 2007 CBA valued its holding its AWG at $832 million and said it had sold 32 per cent of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after a more than one per cent decline yesterday. US stock markets and commodity trading in London were closed overnight, providing little direction. At 0734 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

Abu Dhabi opens investment doors

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... including a branch of the Guggenheim Museum - plus the first subsidiary of the Paris-based Louvre. Plans to develop roads, water supply systems, drainage and sewerage on surrounding islands are expected to help accommodate a projected doubling of the ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... our national infrastructure spending, fund an ever demanding military, pay the States even higher grants, fix our national water supply and maintain our tax-free super and even the most naive fiscal observer must know what's coming around the corner. ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... structured products at 41 and 3.4 per cent respectively. Climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable water themed investments represented $23.7 billion of the sustainable investment market at the end of December 2007. The report ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... hope. Meanwhile the Productivity Commission today released a report arguing that it's economically inefficient to control water use by imposing consumption restrictions. A much better mechanism would be introducing free market pricing principles and ...

US confidence down and up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Consumer confidence in the US has fallen to a five-year low, driven by unrelenting negative economic news and the impact on consumption of the perpetually falling US dollar. But institutional investor confidence is up. The consumer confidence survey ...

Have DNA, will buy insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Advanced science and technology has enabled DNA testing to be accessible to the American public. But the availability of genetic information has caused a growing number of residents to fear discrimination from insurance providers should the tests reveal ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... prices to discourage wasteful energy consumption this reaction seems somewhat bizarre. Add in concerns that drinking bottled water is so "anti-environment" it should be made as unfashionable as smoking and this inconsistency starts to get serious. According ...