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Bezos steps down at Amazon

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... Jeff Bezos will step down as chief executive later this year, transitioning to the role of executive chair. Announced in Amazon's full year 2020 results, chief executive of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Andy Jassy will take over as chief executive in Q3 ...

Billionaires profit from pandemic: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... wealth increase by US$540 billion over the period. Tesla's Elon Musk increased his net wealth by US$128.9 billion, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos saw his fortune go up US$78.2 billion.

Hyperion makes foray into active ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... assets under management. The fund was buoyed by the spike in Tesla's share price, together with Square, Paypal and Amazon. Some of its other holdings include Costco, Salesforce and Visa. The listed fund will have the same fee structure as the unlisted ...

Amazon Web Services expands Australian operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will open a second infrastructure region in Australia next year, assisting the financial services industry to run applications and serve end users from data centres around the country. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region ...

The hits you don't see hurt the most: Aviva

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... particularly those occupied by social housing or healthcare-related tenants. "We continue to favour logistics businesses, such as Amazon warehouses and equivalents, and multi-family residential assets," Phoenix Group head of illiquid asset origination ...

Russell launches new super product

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... Hampshire said GoalTracker offers the kind of personalisation people might be used to from companies like Netflix, Spotify and Amazon - where algorithms predict what consumers may like by assessing what they have consumed in the past. GoalTracker members ...

Worst investment ideas revealed: ARK

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... investment idea. The researchers said COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to e-commerce, and experiments companies like Amazon are currently conducting with autonomous delivery could make shopping online even cheaper and more convenient. "In our view ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... narrow set of technology stocks, and we think this is unsustainable," Wei said. "Isolating five stocks, including Tesla, Amazon and Apple, our paper shows that the value underperformance, relative to the market capitalization benchmark, largely disappears ...

Active portfolios post stellar returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... 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 and food ...

Super funds lag on disclosure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... Among global equities, top picks were also similar with eight of the top 10 of most funds being technology stocks like Amazon and Facebook. Still, in Australia, super funds have 60% more capital invested in resources than in technology, the research ...