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VanEck launches hedged version of $520m ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... version of our successful QUAL ETF." The management 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 ...

BlackRock and Microsoft develop retirement platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... develop a new retirement platform. Noting the responsibility for retirement planning now rests with millions of Americans, Microsoft has partnered with BlackRock, and the two global giants intend to help people develop better investing habits by regularly ...

Perpetual partners with Microsoft

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... Intelligence Platform includes a newly-launched module on mortgage market insights. It was developed in partnership with Microsoft's Azure cloud services and Power BI. The platform combines Perpetual data with external data and analyses them for patterns ...

Temenos scores digital transformation mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... excellence and improve customer service. Headquartered in Geneva, Temenos provides cloud-based banking software that runs on Microsoft Azure. It is listed in the Swiss Stock and provides banking software systems to retail, corporate, wealth managers ...

Superannuation ripe for blockchain

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... four banks and local startups share the floor with some of the world's most influential organisations, including Microsoft and BNY Mellon. FinTech Australia chair Alan Tsen, who will be speaking at the event, says Australia often underestimates how ...

Super funds cut exposures to banks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... to holdings, the top international stocks held by NFP super funds are: Samsung, Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, Tencent, Microsoft, Visa, Taiwan Semicon, Alibaba and Nestle. "International tech stocks making up an average 11% of NFP international equities ...

Industry body names first chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... more than 20 years' experience in financial services advocacy. Prior to joining the association Young held roles with Microsoft, CSIRO, Aon, Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) and the Association of Superannuation Funds ...

AustralianSuper bolsters executive lineup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... of technology for ANZ's corporate and commercial bank between 2014 and 2016. She has also held roles with Deloitte, Microsoft and Accenture. AustralianSuper said the new role was created to elevate the role and profile of the fund's technology function. ...

BAT stocks worse than FANGs: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... cumulative return was -16% as compared to their US-counterparts' -6%. Average cumulative returns for FANG and peers (Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Twitter and Tesla) stood at 15.46%, as compared to BATs' cumulative year to date returns of just 1.73%. They ...

Saxo Bank moves banking platform to cloud

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Saxo Bank has entered a strategic partnership with tech giant Microsoft, under which it will aim to run the technology stack for all of its banking products on Microsoft cloud. Founder and chief executive Kim Fournai said the move will help the bank ...