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Aberdeen Standard hires retirement head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... persuasions - on retirement, wraps, mergers and acquisitions and "other transformation areas." Nyilas also spent 10 years at IBM as the firm's global pensions leader, and advised KPMG on the future of its wealth management business across 2014 and 20 ...

Facebook dropped from ESG index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... Index underwent its annual rebalance at the end of April and removed several notable companies along with Facebook - including IBM, Oracle and Wells Fargo. Facebook was the fourth largest company in the S&P 500 ESG Index, demonstrating the significance ...

Kyckr improves platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... enabling users to instantly find company profiles, credit reports and filings. Kyckr's customers include Bloomberg, Citigroup and IBM.

Beware disruptors: Antipodes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... these stocks." She warns that while there are strong incumbents like Microsoft, there are also weak incumbents - she counts IBM among the weak incumbents. "We believe that the incumbents do have a power to them because of the customer lock. However ...

Aussie blockchain investor goes global

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... and DLT represent the next evolution of a distributed database. We are seeing widespread adoption from JP Morgan, Facebook, IBM, Starbucks, Fidelity, Nasdaq, ASX etc." "Global banks are either developing their own protocol/solution or are part of a larger ...

New chief executive at Link Fund Administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
An IBM managing partner has been appointed as chief executive of Link Fund Administration, as Link shuffles its executive lineup. Dee McGrath will now oversee Link Group's administration functions which services many superannuation funds. In her most ...

AUB Group hires chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... Searles. Emmett was most recently the chief executive of Cover-More and has previously held roles with QBE, EY, Accenture and IBM. Searles will move into an advisory position until October, 2019. AUB Group chair David Clarke said: "We are delighted to ...

MLC Life welcomes board member

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... experience in the technology sector, most recently as Asia Pacific vice-president of cognitive process transformation services at IBM. Prior to this she was chief executive at Infosys Australia from 2008 to 2014. MLC Life Insurance chair Peter Grey said ...

MetLife Australia wins tech award

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... use any machine learning or artificial intelligence. The team has done some initial investigations into AI, including into IBM Watson through its international teams. However, at this stage, the focus was on collecting claims information. "It wouldn't ...

UBS shutters UK robo platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
... digital assistants in a wealth management context." FaceMe created the avatar and its supporting technology in partnership with IBM, who lent its Watson technology to the cause.