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AUI expands retail arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed Mark HortonAndrews to head of product and Cameron Farrar to business development manager as part of the company's strategy to develop its retail division. Prior to this appointment, HortonAndrews spent ...

Aurora to list buy-write income trust

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... also be geared to an expected average Loan to Value Ratio (LVR) of 50 per cent and invest in listed toll roads, airports, water utilities, gas utilities, electric utilities, ports, pipelines, and other infrastructure assets throughout the world. Hugh ...

The $10 million sustainable punt

... million in direct property, all of which have gone through an SRI review (energy efficient lighting, waste recycling for water and paper, etc.) more than six months ago. The $5-billion plus fund is one of the eight cornerstone investors of Regnan, a ...

Comm Hotel property fund bags sustainability award

... manager, Colonial First State Global Asset Management and hotel manager, Marriott International, in reducing the hotel's water, waste and energy use, as well as its social initiatives. "It is refreshing to work with a hotel owner that is focused on being ...

Gunns fuels CG debate

... the Tasmanian Parliament gave the mill a permit in August 30 and, a month later, after the Minister for Environment and Water Resources Malcolm Turnbull approved the project, subject to 48 conditions. UBS has a buy recommendation on the shares up to ...

Challenger takes part in $9.5bn infrastructure buy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
An international consortium including Challenger, Access Capital Advisers and UBS have acquired UK utility, Southern Water Capital, from the Royal Bank of Scotland Group for $9.5 billion. Challenger has invested $225 million into the Challenger Infrastructure ...

Super funds to invest direct into infrastructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... Colonial First State Private Capital (CFI) infrastructure fund for $116 million, following from other funds who put money into water infrastructure. The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) and MTAA Super have also moved into the sector, and ...

Bridges over fresh waters

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
Bridges Financial Services, a financial planning business with nearly $17 billion in funds under advice (FUA), has looked to new products in the market to increase its fund manager line up by more than 10 per cent. A subsidiary of ASX 200 investment ...

Water off a Peking duck's back

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
While credit and liquidity worries have continued to pound global equities markets, it's all been water off a Peking duck's back to China. According to Moody's Investors Service, Asia Pacific as a whole has been shrugging off sub-prime crisis and liquidity. ...

Sydney on $24 million a day

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... chirping of Black Hawk helicopters and protesters performing their morning ablutions under the energetic stream of a $600,000 water cannon. No wonder Sydney residents are being given the big heave-ho. It's all the security forces can handle just keeping ...