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FEATURE: Fixed income | Adjusting the lens

PENNY PRYOR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026
... light of some of the changes in how companies in the sector are raising funds. The hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Oracle have been moving from financing via cash and/or equity to greater reliance on the debt markets due to the scale ...

FEATURE: Global equities | Triaging tech's second act

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... infrastructure is expected to rise to as much as US$650 billion in 2026. Individual commitments are even more striking. Alphabet plans to spend roughly US$175 - US$185 billion as it expands compute capacity, while Amazon recently committed close to US$200 ...

Severe underperformance sees Polen Capital funds wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
... growth companies around the world, primarily in North America and Europe. Its top holdings as at February end were NVIDIA, Alphabet, Broadcom and Microsoft; at that time, it had $25.1 million in funds under management. Since its March 2021 inception ...

Financing the technological revolution: AI issuance in credit

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... are behind the surge. "Most of the issuance has come from large, investment-grade 'hyperscalers' - the likes of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta - which are now funding a sizeable amount of their AI capex with record-sized bond deals," he said. An article ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" carbon emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
Latest research by World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has found that top technology companies including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft lack in mobilising low-carbon investments through capital expenditure and R&D, even though they have an emissions ...

HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... international crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory OPT]". Some of the most well-known globally are Microsoft, Alphabet, Airbnb and Booking.com, Amazon, Palantir Technology, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems and Caterpillar. Several superannuation ...

Platinum LIC turns down WAM bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... undervalued businesses. Since its 1994 inception, PMC has returned 10.7% p.a. Some of its largest holdings are in TSMC, Alphabet, Novartis, Unilever and AstraZeneca. Platinum shareholders recently voted in favour of merging with L1 Capital to create ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... present report alone," she wrote in her report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide. They include Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Booking.com., Airbnb, Palantir Technologies, Volvo, BNP Paribas and Caterpillar. Albanese also highlighted BlackRock ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... 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 on hard tangible ...

Holding mega-cap stocks could be detrimental: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... markets had reached levels of market 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 ...
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