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RBA crushes hopes of Libra launch

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... exist. Other than Facebook, notable Libra backers include Calibra, Uber, Spotify and Vodafone, however PayPal, eBay, Mastercard, Stripe, Visa, Mercado Pago and Bookings Holdings left the Libra Association following widely publicised US senate meetings ...

Afterpay slides in global fintech rankings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... second-largest in Australian history at the time. Among its backers are Tencent Holdings, Sequoia China, Square Peg Capital and MasterCard. After an up and down year, Afterpay scraped into the top 50, dropping 21 places from its 2018 ranking to reach ...

VanEck launches hedged version of $520m ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... cost for QHAL is 0.43% per annum. Top holdings in both ETFs include Microsoft, Apple and Google, Walt Disney, Visa, Mastercard and Johnson & Johnson and Nestle. "QHAL gives investors peace of mind that their returns won't be eroded by the impact ...

Global equities fund purges tobacco, fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... in aggregate." Vontobel has "dialled up" investments in high-growth staples and stocks such as credit card company Mastercard and Unilever at different points in time to make up for the divestments. The manager did not disclose what percentage of the ...

Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... by Bank of America later that month. Arjuna Capital is still awaiting response from Bank of New York Mellon, AmEx, Mastercard, Reinsurance Group, Progressive Insurance and J.P. Morgan. Arjuna Capital managing partner Natasha Lamb said the flood gates ...

Citigroup takes action on pay inequality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... Boston-based impact investment firm Arjuna Capital. In 2017 Arjuna Capital also issued resolutions to Bank of America, MasterCard, American Express, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo. Citi also originally rejected the proposal. Responding to shareholder pressure ...

Fund managers must offer genuine partnerships

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... multiple than Campbell's Soup as the market has bid up consumer staples. Other stocks held across the portfolios include MasterCard and Samsung. Pacific Current head of distribution Stephen Bramley said, "We are seeing strong interest in GQG Partners ...

Ghosts of emerging markets past not worth the risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... we invest in are multinationals, so it's not so much a play on the North American economy, it's more of a case that MasterCard is a fantastic global organisation which happens to be based in the US," said Bell. Europe is also catching Bell Asset Management's ...

Competitiveness at risk from STEM fall-off

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... reinstated if we are serious about STEM education particularly for girls." Titled "Girls in Tech" and conducted by MasterCard the study surveyed 1,560 girls aged 12 to 19 years in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. China and ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Douglass attributed the strong performance to high returns from some of Magellan's largest positions, including Visa Card, Mastercard, Microsoft and Ebay. Another contributor was Douglass' call to increase the cash weighting to 15% over the year: "That ...