Today
Atlas Arteria dodges second strike on remuneration at AGM
IFM Investors backed the toll road group’s remuneration report this year but the company has hit another setback in its attempts to raise toll fares in the US.
- Jenny Wiggins
Investors put Bingo on watch as debt trades at a discount
Street Talk understands a small clip of long-dated debt in Macquarie’s waste management play Bingo traded in the past few weeks.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
This Month
Transurban executives ‘no longer required’ after restructure
Two of Transurban’s top executives will leave on June 1 after the company decided to shift away from state-based oversight.
- Jenny Wiggins
Eyes on Transgrid as super funds bail out of $8b infra fund UTA
Sources say Aware Super has hired Campbell Lutyens, a specialist in moving illiquid investments for institutional investors, to shop a $600 million stake.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
IFM’s stake in Atlas Arteria creeps up to 26pc; Jarden on trade
The infrastructure investor paid $5.62 a share in a pre-market block trade on Tuesday morning.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
NSW toll reform suggestions ‘a recipe for disaster’: IPA
NSW’s tolling review should dump suggestions of overriding the state’s toll road contracts with legislation because it risks spooking investors, says Infrastructure Partnerships Australia.
- Jenny Wiggins
Queensland Airports Limited auction revs up for take-off ... yet again
The auction’s start date has already slipped a couple of times, from the new year, to post-Easter, and now to late May. Of note, a firm timetable is yet to be set.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Airports
Virgin Australia goes to war over airport ‘gold plating’
The airline’s chief financial officer, Race Strauss, says much of the $15 billion being spent by major airports on infrastructure is unnecessary.
- Jenny Wiggins
Behind the PM’s $3b ‘bailout’ of Victoria’s most expensive road
Experts blame a $10 billion blowout for the North East Link on CFMEU disruptions, a failed tender process and crazy design decisions to pander to community groups.
- Patrick Durkin, David Marin-Guzman and Gus McCubbing
Atlas Arteria’s ‘back-up plan’ to fight French taxes
The tollroad group is cutting costs and jobs as it tries to keep dividends at current levels, chief executive Graeme Bevans says.
- Jenny Wiggins
Transurban wants more drivers to see the benefit of toll fares
In a strategy presentation to investors, the motorway giant’s chief executive Michelle Jablko said the focus would be on ‘running the business better’.
- Jenny Wiggins
More congestion, more profit: ex-CEO slams Sydney interchange plan
Ex-NSW roads executives say the controversial Rozelle Interchange was designed to have more congestion to increase the value of WestConnex before it was sold.
- Campbell Kwan
April
Downer EDI employees, council workers ‘seriously corrupt’, ICAC finds
Two former employees of Downer EDI were corrupt on transport projects and the company did not always comply with rules dealing with subcontractors, investigators found.
- Jenny Wiggins
QIC, Partners Group eye $2b Global Switch Australia; bids loom
Indicative offers are due May 5 and Global Switch’s owners have instructed UBS to then fast-track the auction’s binding bid stage
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
AirTrunk’s owners set NBIO deadline for $15b sale
Bidders have been given until the end of May to submit first-round bids, in what will serve as an early gauge of AirTrunk’s much-touted $15 billion price tag.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Tasmea helps break IPO drought after spurning private equity
Stephen Young says he held out for the thawing of the IPO market rather than commit a “breach of faith” by selling to private equity buyers.
- Simon Evans
Barrenjoey pumps bidders for UniSuper’s stake in Aquasure
The desalination plant has predictable cash flows, thanks to its right to collect indexed revenues even if the government doesn’t order any water, a sales flyer says.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
DP World profit tumbles 34pc after wharfie strikes
The stevedores giant’s annual profits have slid following the dispute over new wage agreements and after container volumes fell, the company’s accounts show.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Exclusive
- Infrastructure
Plenary Group sells 49pc stake to sovereign wealth fund ADQ in $1b deal
Founders and some executives of the infrastructure investor will receive a windfall after getting a cash injection from the Abu Dhabi investment group.
- Jenny Wiggins
Seven Group says talk of Cleanaway buyout ‘completely untrue’
Shares in Australia’s largest waste collection company surged 15.8 per cent, to a two-year-high, after reports that the conglomerate was contemplating a bid.
- Simon Evans