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Veteran Suncorp executive departs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... Marlow's arrival in March; she will join as chief executive officer, strategic innovation, having been managing director of Microsoft Australia. Cameron said Marlow will be "pivotal to the success of our marketplace, our third party relationships and ...

Suncorp appoints Microsoft exec

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
A senior Microsoft Australia executive will lead Suncorp's strategic innovation from March 2017. Taking on the newly-created position of chief executive officer - strategic innovation, Microsoft Australia managing director Pip Marlow will join the Suncorp ...

Global investment redrawn by technology

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... investment map is being redrawn by technology. What we need to do is follow the profit pools - look at Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple. They are disrupting profit pools as far as healthcare, financials, media and even music," Lodha said. As a result ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... medical technology leading to major breakthroughs in longevity. In the medium term, Magellan's top four holdings - Apple, Microsoft, Visa and Alphabet - are aimed at benefitting from advances in cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence ...

Social media ETF proves possibilities are endless

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... social media and telecommunications names on the US index including Alphabet (index weight of 14.16%), Apple (8.16%), Microsoft (4.91%), Twitter (3.86%), Intel Corp (2.27%) and AT&T (1.61%). Companies from less obvious sectors such as The Walt Disney ...

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 ...