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AMP hires from AustralianSuper

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
... Labs, as well as in strategy and business optimisation for the corporate and commercial bank. She has also worked at Microsoft, Deloitte and Accenture, working across Australia, the US and UK. AMP chief executive Alexis George said she looks forward ...

InvestSMART launches ethical product

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2021
... ESG analysis are excluded from the criteria. The current top holdings in the fund are CSL, Commonwealth Bank, Apple, Microsoft and Westpac. The offer opened on November 15 and closes on November 26. The minimum investment is $10,000 with management fees ...

Licensee awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... fact-find solution. In March, ROAR patented Highlighter, its proprietary application that enables the conversion of Microsoft Excel tools into online web applications. ROAR chief executive Kevin Liao said this allows financial advisers to develop fully ...

State Street launches new data platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... launched an end-to-end data management and warehouse solution for institutional investors, partnering with Snowflake and Microsoft Azure. The State Street Alpha Data Platform combines data from multiple sources in the investment process (internal and ...

Magellan axes currency hedging in trust

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... to 12 of Magellan's highest conviction ideas. Currently, its largest five holdings include Alibaba Group, Alphabet, Microsoft, Starbucks and Tencent. Magellan is restructuring its retail global equities funds to create a $15 billion fund that will combine ...

GMO launches global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... calendar years, the portfolio beat both the benchmarks. Nearly 45% of the portfolio was invested in 10 stocks: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, UnitedHealth Group, Accenture, Coca-Cola, Oracle, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook and Medtronic. Geographically, 83% ...

Female fund managers outperform men

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... male counterparts prefer the financials sector, female-managed funds tend to favour tech stocks like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Tesla. Female-managed funds tend to have the lowest allocation to stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, Wells Fargo and Exxon ...

Hearts and Minds donates almost $10m to charity

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... we also invest in Appen which is up over 100%, we participated in Spotify, which is up over 75%, while Zillow Group, Microsoft, and our holdings in next tier tech companies have also performed well," he told Financial Standard. The listed investment ...

Take your CAPE ratio with a grain of salt

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... Chesler argues that without the FAANGS, the ratio wouldn't be flashing red. "If you take out the FAANGS and even Microsoft out of the returns of the S&P 500 it has actually been negative; so you've got that one sector doing particularly well ...

MSCI shifts to the cloud with Microsoft alliance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
Global index provider MSCI has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to shift its products, data and services onto the cloud, in a move that the duo says will accelerate innovation among the global investment industry. The partnership will enhance ...