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Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... to consider policies that reduce inequality, including by imposing higher tax rates on the rich and acting against monopolies. "This provides us with some measured hope for a new economic consensus to emerge," Morgain said. "Here in Australia, and globally ...

Sydney Airport takeover given green light

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... "This is no surprise, as we've been saying for a long time that Australian airports such as Sydney Airport are natural monopolies, with significant market power and no price regulation," Sims said. "The proposed acquisition is therefore unlikely to substantially ...

Fintech future lies in a winning ecosystem: Reinventure

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... world leader in the space. "The whole blockchain piece has to potential to actually pull apart some of these massive monopolies that are growing up in the tech space," Cant said. "It would be great if as a community we could lean in together, and build ...

Water investing makes a splash

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... which has been one of the main hurdles large intuitional investors face when allocating capital, she says. State-owned monopolies and their stronghold are also a deterring factor. A public inquiry reviewing the efficiency of the water sector is also ...

Fintechs to drive Australia's economy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... benefit the entire economy. "This is what disruption does, you create new structures, new industries, undermine existing monopolies and protected areas and we create new opportunities for everybody," Sinodinos said. He said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's ...

Monopolies offer best infrastructure returns: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
Investors looking for a more attractive risk-reward pay-off than the wider equity market should consider infrastructure companies with monopolistic businesses and revenue linked to inflation, according to Lazard. Warryn Robertson, portfolio manager ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... the 2005 choice of fund laws. These laws allow enterprise agreements to remove choice provisions, thereby creating monopolies. This must change to guarantee choice and ultimately lower fees to all working Australians. Employers are also restricted from ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... to do with their investable funds. Infrastructure assets provide a solution: they are generally large semi - or true monopolies which provide an illiquidity premium for investors who can afford to lock their money away. Transactions like the purchase ...

HFT and dark pools keep ASIC on its toes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... last year between SGX and the ASX. "It was regulators that introduced the multi-market structures that broke up the monopolies of the national exchanges, so it's not surprising that their reaction has been to try and grow though mergers and acquisitions. ...

Power up on low emission stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... since July. "There has been no change in the strong fundamentals of the stocks which are mostly government-enforced monopolies or near monopolies and are now good buying," Baker said. "The recent correction had some positive effects including reversing ...
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