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Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... storage group NextDC in the Software & Services sector, and Goodman Group who have warehousing and logistics clients such as Amazon in the Real Estate sector, earnings are showing resilience with an outlook for growth," Xiradis said. "Sectors like Resources ...

Billionaires club rakes in cash amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... Studies revealed the "pandemic profiteers" that have benefited from plummeting tax obligations amid the COVID-19 crisis. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was one such billionaire, whose fortune increased by an estimated $39.3 billion (US$25 billion) as of April ...

Why Phillip Morris gets ESG points

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... analysis, these superficial screens can turn up results that don't mean much. For example, Wal-Mart owns its own trucks and Amazon outsources its shipping. A basic ESG screen or score without further interrogation may indicate Amazon has a smaller ...

New Aussie ETF to invest in FAANGs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... Securities is set to launch a new exchange traded fund on the ASX that will invest in 10 companies including Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google which together returned 45% last year. The ETF's will hold 10 stocks in equal weighting, adding names ...

Most traded stocks, ETFs of 2019 revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... the top holdings of Saxo clients in Australia were dominated by international tech stocks. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba made up the top five. Smith said US equity markets continue to present attractive opportunities to Australian investors ...

Super fund grows US real estate assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... apartment complex contains more than 900 apartments and is close to fully occupied. According to Kumaru, the likelihood of Amazon moving its new headquarters to Virginia would see the state's residential market heat up. The acquisitions come as QSuper ...

Tech to topple banking: RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... financial services. He suggested Google, Apple, Facebook could become banking's biggest competitors, noting that PayPal and Amazon already hold "substantial data" on customers, and social networks could be used to "predict borrowers' commitment to repay ...

Super fund appoints GM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... a more agile organisation, noting the impact of implementing a new cloud foundation, which he said will "use the latest Amazon Web Services native tools and patterns to provide speed and flexibility" as the fund aims to deliver greater value to members. ...

Industry fund publicly shames investment adviser

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... technology and robotics in its logistics business. Last year, Forbes published an article on XPO with the title 'Better than Amazon?' But, in October 2018 allegations of mistreatment of employees at XPO warehouses first surfaced when the New ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... its first trillionaire, according to a new study that looked at the private wealth of the world's richest denizens. Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is on the way to becoming the first trillionaire by 2026 when he will be 62 years old ...