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Women-led super funds outperform over medium, long run

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... media. In international equities, women-led funds looked to the US with more exposure to Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple and Amazon. Male-led funds looked to Asia, with higher exposure to Taiwan Semiconductor, Tencent, Alibaba, and Samsung. "With more than ...

Value companies to outperform in 2023: VanEck

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... cuts are likely as companies strip unprofitable business segments." This year, tech conglomerates Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce have already announced plans to layoff a combined 47,000 employees. Although the US tech sector has rallied ...

Norwegian wealth fund reports -14.1% return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... regional perspective, its biggest hits were felt in the US, losing $63 billion and saying the major technology companies like Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Alphabet, Apple, and Microsoft contributed most negatively to the absolute return. "The market was impacted ...

Forget BRICs: Skerryvore

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... own payments business. And then there's a business called Mercado Libre, which is a combination of Paypal, eBay and Amazon in Latin America. It's growing at about 150% at the moment in its financial payments business." He said the key is businesses ...

Charter Hall sells half-stake in office fund to GIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
... comprises 48,000m 2 of lettable area, is under construction and due for 2023 completion. In December 2021, Aware Super joined Amazon as an anchor tenant of 555 Collins Street, set to occupy six high rise floors of the building. Aware Super group executive ...

Global fintech Smart expands pension offering to Australia

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2022
... will operate under the Smart brand and provide its fintech offerings locally. Its technology includes apps, web access, Amazon Alexa and Google Home skills, apparently making it as easy to manage retirement funds as it is to shop or bank online. Co-founders ...

SEC rules against Amazon pension case

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
The US Securities and Exchange Commission ruled against Amazon's no-action motion to exclude a shareholder resolution asking the company to prepare a report on how employee retirement savings are invested. The shareholder resolution, brought by activist ...

BetaShares adds e-commerce ETF to thematic range

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... online retail, online travel, and online marketplace. IBUY's index constituents currently include global powerhouses such as Amazon, PayPal, Ebay, Tencent and Alibaba, as well as vertical specialists such as Airbnb, Spotify, and HelloFresh. IBUY will ...

Advised clients' major concerns in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... founder and adviser Ben Nash said he works with many clients that work in the technology space such as Apple, Google, and Amazon. For them, the big concern is the ongoing volatility of technology shares and the sharemarket more broadly; they are wondering ...

Not all tech created equal: Principal

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... present value from future cash flows. By contrast, Shah stated that mega-cap tech firms, such as the FAANGs (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet (Google), who already generate huge cash flows, exhibit strong pricing power, and offer impressive ...