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ANZ launches underwriting engine to market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
ANZ's life insurance arm has released its predictive underwriting technology following a successful soft launch. The big data-powered underwriting engine will allow customers applying for OneCare insurance to complete personal statements 30% faster. ...

Beware the fintech Ponzi scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... posing as P2P platforms. In a paper released by the SWIFT Institute titled "Quo Vadis? A comparison of the fintech revolution in China and the West", the joint authors Dr. Bonnie Buchanan and Dr. Cathy Xuying Cao provided a comprehensive report of the ...

Digital custody evolutionary, not revolutionary: SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
A SIX executive told SIBOS delegates moving to a complete digital custody system in one go would prove to be a challenge for the global financial services industry. Speaking at the SIBOS conference in Sydney on Tuesday morning, SIX head of product management ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... and to instead call the new agreement "USMCA," for United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. It's not a total trade revolution, as Trump promised, but USMCA does make substantial changes to modernize trade rules in effect from 1994 to 2020, and it give ...

Wealth fintech strengthens leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... represents this perfectly. She is an absolute leader in her field of expertise having lived through the advice technology revolution. She has an incredibly determined work ethic and she's a lot of fun. We are delighted that Helen is joining the team," ...

Investors sharpen watch on RMBS

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... RMBS as at May 31. Also this year, fixed income veteran Bob Sahota and Simon Petris launched private debt boutique Revolution Asset Management. About 15% of its model portfolio is in RMBS. Kapstream manages $12.5 billion in fixed income investments. ...

PC puts spotlight on lifecycle super products

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... superannuation will move from accumulation to retirement. It's important to note that the changes taking place is "not a revolution but an evolution." The current system was designed for Australians aged 55 to 75 years old living in a different world ...

Private debt attractive for instos: Sahota

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... lenders to enter the private debt space. The former Challenger head of fixed income started a private debt boutique, Revolution Asset Management, in December 2017 in a partnership with Channel Capital. The new asset management firm confirmed it is expecting ...

Kina expands IRESS relationship

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
A Papua New Guinean bank and wealth management firm is expanding the implementation of an IRESS fund administration platform. Kina Securities, a $4.3 billion fund administrator, will use IRESS' Acurity Online platform to allow its 700,000 PNG members ...

Responding to the revolution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
The digital transformation and casualisation of the workforce is the fourth industrial revolution in action and superannuation funds can find lessons in history on how best to respond. Addressing the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds in Brisbane ...