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Microsoft flips AI switch on for MUFG

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
MUFG Pension and Market Services (MPMS) has collaborated with Microsoft to adopt AI-powered solutions across its MUFG Retirement Solutions and MUFG Corporate Markets business divisions. The five-year strategic partnership is built on a co-investment ...

CareSuper to undertake cloud transformation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
The $57 billion super fund is making the move from VMware Cloud on AWS to Microsoft Azure as it looks to create a more modern, cost-efficient environment. CareSuper has mandated Macquarie Cloud Services to migrate and recalibrate its cloud environment ...

Fin365 to build one-stop-shop for financial firms

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... includes the creation of integrated service model that combines both technology and human expertise. Fin365's offers Microsoft-leveraged solutions such as Dynamics 365, Power Automate, Power BI and Copilot. Commenting, Fin365 chief executive Stephen ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... you can see that 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 ...

Bill Gates to shutter Gates Foundation in 2045

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... ensue people always have access to financial and social services that foster an inclusive and equitable economy. "As Microsoft turns 50 years old, it feels right that I celebrate the milestone by committing to give away the resources I earned through ...

Global X to launch AI infrastructure ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... by 2030," Leung said. "While we are familiar with mega cap semiconductor and software names like Nvidia, Google and Microsoft, AI infrastructure companies represent an untapped growth area which will continue to expand alongside AI technologies. Hence ...

Holding mega-cap stocks could be detrimental: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... 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 of the S&P 500. Those levels of ...

Study finds 5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... The research analysed the holdings of 13,507 actively managed funds and 784 ETFs and does not include investments in Microsoft, which is currently building a gas-fired power plant for a data center.

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

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... innovative companies 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
... active 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 ...