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Active portfolios post stellar returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... which is a win for this portfolio." Some of the holdings in the sector-agnostic strategy include global companies such as Tencent, Amazon, Atlassian, Tesla, Oscar Health, Shopify, online fitness company Peloton, and companies operating in online banking ...

Fintechs drive venture capital: KPMG

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... rather than in store. This has led to investor and funding support to Zip who recently acquired QuadPay and China's Tencent buying shares in Afterpay. KPMG's global fintech co-leader Ian Pollari said: "COVID-19 will be a key driver for fintech ...

Top traded stocks revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... Tesla's footsteps. "A share price surge in the middle of June came for the Chinese car manufacturer when technology company Tencent increased its holdings in Nio to 15%, from its second share offering." Other large cap stocks popular among Aussie investors ...

Chinese tech giant buys 5% stake in Afterpay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... buy-now-pay-later provider Afterpay, after paying approximately $416 million for more than 13 million shares in the company. Tencent is an online entertainment, digital advertising, social media, fintech and cloud services provider listed on the Hong ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... engine maker Weichai Power, branded sportswear company Anta Sports, as well as better known companies such as Alibaba, Tencent and Ping An Insurance," he said. However, Taw said investors should refrain from placing China in the EM bucket. "We need to ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... said. "But from a valuation perspective, China as a whole looks very attractive. There are certain brands like Alibaba, Tencent and Kweichow Moutai which are trading at really high multiples, but we're still not seeing across the board sentiment ...

Pendal cuts fees on equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... to China, India and South Korea, while the biggest stock positions were in Samsung Electronics (9.2% of the portfolio), Tencent (5.5%) and Naspers (3.9%) at December end. The fund started in November 2012 and had $334 million in total assets at end of ...

Afterpay slides in global fintech rankings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... a USD$80 million funding round, reportedly the second-largest in Australian history at the time. Among its backers are Tencent Holdings, Sequoia China, Square Peg Capital and MasterCard. After an up and down year, Afterpay scraped into the top 50, dropping ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... Alibaba Group and was previously a university lecturer. Ma Huateng (Pony May) has an engineering background and co-founded Tencent in 1998 which owns popular messaging app WeChat. Some technology tycoons will live to see their net worth rise to a trillion ...

Beware tech firms in financial services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... complete financial services offerings right now are based in China and Japan. Alibaba (including its subsidiaries Alipay and Tencent), Baidu, Line (including Rakuten) and NTT Docomo all offer not only payment systems but money market funds, insurance ...