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Five V Capital welcomes new C-suite appointment

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2026
... organisational capability to enable high performance. Earlier in her career, she stationed at Permira, 3i Group plc, IBM, and Microsoft, gaining experience across both private equity and global technology organisations, Five V Capital said. In her new ...

First Sentier adds to C-suite, hires from Rabobank

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2026
... services, technology and consumer goods, having previously held senior leadership roles at Commonwealth Bank, PepsiCo, Microsoft and ANZ bank. In her new role, she will work closely with senior leaders across the organisation to attract, develop and ...

US and Aussie shares 'incredibly divergent': UniSuper

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2026
... skyrocketing," Colosimo said. The scale of investment is also accelerating combined capital expenditure from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta is expected to reach US$715 billion this year. "The markets really focussed on the shortage of compute rather ...

AustralianSuper hires head of AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... fund has named its first head of AI and automation in a newly created role. Sarah Carney joins AustralianSuper from Microsoft where she spent a decade, most recently as national chief technology officer for Australia and New Zealand. AustralianSuper ...

FEATURE: Fixed income | Adjusting the lens

PENNY PRYOR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026
... especially in light of some of the changes in how companies in the sector are raising funds. The hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Oracle have been moving from financing via cash and/or equity to greater reliance on the debt markets due ...

FEATURE: Global equities | Triaging tech's second act

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... AI models. The next layer is infrastructure, dominated by hyperscale cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which provide the computing capacity, storage and networking required to deploy AI at scale. On top of that sit the ...

Vanguard launches four new funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2026
... stocks across more than 20 countries. The funds will have exposure to leading technology companies such as NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and ASML Holding. The new international high-yield funds will track the FTSE ...

Severe underperformance sees Polen Capital funds wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... world, primarily in North America and Europe. Its top holdings as at February end were NVIDIA, Alphabet, Broadcom and Microsoft; at that time, it had $25.1 million in funds under management. Since its March 2021 inception the fund returned 14.30% against ...

AI layoffs a correction from overhiring: Morningstar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026
... consulting firms Wipro, Infosys and Tata Consulting Services, and Thomson Reuters, Shopify and Chinese firm Baidu. It views Microsoft, Universal Music Group, MSCI, S&P Global, Fortinet, Tencent, Nintendo Booking Holdings and Australian firm WiseTech ...

UniSuper faces fresh greenwashing allegation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026
... extreme volatility the option had seen over the years due to its concentrated nature. As a result, companies such as Microsoft and Nvidia became top holdings in the portfolio. John Dixon, the member at the centre of the complaint, takes issue with these ...
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