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Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... present report alone," she wrote in her report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide. They include Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Booking.com., Airbnb, Palantir Technologies, Volvo, BNP Paribas and Caterpillar. Albanese also highlighted BlackRock ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... the business models are changing. Having largely been intangible asset-driven companies, the likes of Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet are all investing in data centres. Data centres are hard tangible assets, and the return profile you make on hard tangible ...

Holding mega-cap stocks could be detrimental: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... markets had reached levels of market concentration not seen since the 1960s, Scientific Beta said. The Magnificent Seven - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla - on their own accounted for about a third of the market value ...

Apex on local hiring spree

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... "We have the same approach when it comes to administration. The client can choose which components of the operational alphabet they want to keep in-house, whilst outsourcing what they consider to be a utility function that can be handled by us at scale." ...

GCQ enters ETF market, expands sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... was 2.4% for the month. Returns were broad-based, with a meaningful contribution from Richmond Amazon, Visa Inc. and Alphabet.

New starter at GCQ Funds

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... was 2.4% for the month. Returns were broad-based, with a meaningful contribution from Richmond Amazon, Visa Inc, and Alphabet.

Janus Henderson turns $5.2bn fixed interest fund into active ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... listed on the US market on either the NASDAQ or NYSE." U100 holds key companies including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Alphabet and Salesforce. Including the new ETF, Global X now houses 42 ETFs in Australia.

Fixed income drives managed fund surge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... equity funds, but investors are wary of the extreme concentration of the stock market, Calastone said. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Nvidia account for $22.3 trillion in market value, over a quarter of US market capitalisation and equivalent ...

Global dividend strength to continue: Plato

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... earnings to pay substantial dividend increases," Pennell said. "2024 also saw technology giants including Meta Platforms and Alphabet pay dividends for the first time, while higher interest rates increased net interest margins leading to very strong ...

Australian Ethical 'cautious' on valuations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... and looking back, AI was definitely the star of the show, delivering huge gains for companies like NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Meta platforms leading the AI revolution," it said. "While we continue to remain cautious on valuations - we don't ...