Aurizon’s train wreck to claim management?

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From the AFR:

One of Aurizon’s largest shareholders has urged the board to look outside existing company directors for its new chairman, and backed Perpetual Investment’s call for the rail operator to focus on its core business and return more capital to investors.

Philip Green, a partner at TCI Fund Management, which has a 5.9 per cent stake in Aurizon, said the rail operator must focus on increasing dividends and activating its share buyback.

…”It is self evident at these prices that such a project wouldn’t go ahead.” Mr Green said.

Same goes for the Galilee. I’d be looking for new management too.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.