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Xero product chief steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... will leave the company. Angus Norton joined Xero in November 2014, having been a vice president and general manager at Microsoft, where he oversaw the Bing! search engine among other duties. Prior to that, he held numerous other senior roles at Microsoft ...

Capital Group rethinks global investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... growth and global uptake such as Netflix as well established multinational companies with high barriers to entry like Microsoft and Nestle. Investing based on revenue has allowed Capital Group to selectively invest in companies that will provide long ...

HUB24 adds international portfolios to platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... "Now investors can easily and affordably directly own such well-known companies such as Colgate, Nestle, Toyota, Visa, Microsoft and Apple via the international managed portfolios on our market-leading investment platform."

La Trobe Financial Standard Philanthropy Awards judging panel announced

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... range of not-for-profits in the health, arts and philanthropic sectors. Once on Bill Gates's senior executive team at Microsoft in the US, Petre is arguably Australia's best-known technology investor. His ecorp, netus and AirTree Ventures investment ...

Appetite for international shares up 50% with major broker

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... listed on the NASDAQ stock market. The ETF invests in NASDAQ's 100 largest companies by market cap, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Intel, Gilead and Cisco. NASDAQ global vice president and head of index research and development ...

Tech boom drives super to VC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... successful venture capital managers." He added, though, that the global success of technology companies - pointing to Microsoft, Apple and Google, three of the five biggest companies in the world - has helped make VC "one of the best investment asset ...

SSFS meets client demand for phone advice

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... future. As a result we've replaced four systems, including the advice system. We also replaced our CRM - we're now using Microsoft Dynamics - as well as our platform/registry system, and of course our phone system." As a result of the changes, Bradley ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... 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 is positioning ...

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... substance." Ariel holds between 75 and 90 stocks in its portfolio, with the top allocations going to Gilead Sciences, Microsoft, China Mobile and GlaxoSmithKline. It has delivered a return on equity of 21.5% over the five years to 30 June 2015 and has ...

Market set to fall

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... to fall after a weak session on Wall Street due to disappointment with earnings reports from the likes of Apple and Microsoft. At 0700 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,550. There is no major ...