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Global tech wars disrupt $600m market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... tech war between US FAANG stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) and their Chinese BAT counterparts (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent) will dictate the eventual winners of the emerging "experience economy", where customers will decide based on ...

Super funds cut exposures to banks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... 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 holdings implies these ...

BetaShares to launch three tech ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... Asia Technology Tigers ETF (ASIA), which invests in the 50 largest tech companies in Asia ex Japan, including names like Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. "It was more like a partnership. Our research team worked closely with the index provider to implement ...

Aussie HNWI population grows: Capgemini

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... returns," Gomm said. According to Gomm, non-financial services tech giants - otherwise known as BigTechs - such as Amazon, Alibaba, Apple and Google are battling to enter the wealth management space as HNWIs across the globe demand hybrid advice. "The ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... ago, it immediately triggered interest from foreign investors wanting exposure to internet stock giants such as Baidu and Alibaba. But as China's emerging market index concentration grows, iShares says investors might be better off adopting a single ...

BAT stocks worse than FANGs: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, the emerging-market equivalents of FANG stocks are even more expensive, higher risk and lower quality than their US counterparts, according to State Street Global Advisors. A May strategy highlights note written by SSGA chief ...

Amazon still an early-stage company: Fundie

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... beginning of the S curve or the steep part of the growth curve," she said. "In China, online retail makes up 15% of retail. Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com - they are in the sweet spot of an S curve and are growing rapidly." What happens in this period is that ...

Financial Standard journalist recognised in press awards

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... China's Ping An Insurance; and a story on the views of several institutional investors about the rise of retail giant Alibaba. Cheng scooped this year's awards, also winning Journalist of the Year - Investment. Financial Standard's Williamson was one ...

BigTech: The next frontier for high-net-worth investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... only a few BigTech firms have forayed into wealth management in a significant way. Yu'e Bao, an investment product of Alibaba's payment affiliate Ant Financial, became the world's largest money market fund in April, surpassing JPMorgan Chase's US government ...

The rise and impact of insurtech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... acquisition and in-house development." Such collaboration is already occurring with the likes of partnerships between AXA and Alibaba, and in-house incubator models such as MetLife's LumenLab. "Increasingly, partnerships are being viewed as a welcome ...