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AI and avatars set to alter wealth management

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... company FaceMe to produce a digital version of Daniel Kalt, the bank's chief investment officer responsible for Switzerland. The project, called UBS Companion, will allow UBS advisers to bring Kalt's expertise and knowledge into client meetings ...

Avaloq expands Australian footprint, appoints senior roles

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... financial industry across the region. Prior to joining Avaloq, he held executive roles at Deutsche Bank in Singapore and Switzerland. Ayer most recently served as Deutsche Bank interim head of wealth management operations (global) and prior to that was ...

Zurich seeks new investment chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... as chief investment officer for the Australian business in 2013. Prior to this, he held roles in both New York and Switzerland, overseeing the implementation of investment strategies across the North American and European portfolios. Zurich Australia ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... contracted what his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared a day before at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mnuchin said he welcomed a weaker US dollar because it would benefit the country's external trade. Mnuchin's words ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... an economy's GDP over a 12-month period. Based on the US Treasury's findings, China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Switzerland and India are thus put in the "Monitoring List". "Japan, Germany, and Korea have met two of the three criteria in every Report ...

Australia's super assets fastest growing: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... for 49% of total assets across the seven largest pensions markets (Australia, Canada, Japan, Netherland, US, UK and Switzerland) as funds continue to experience positive net cash flow and relatively lower levels of benefit withdrawals compared to their ...

UBS restructures global wealth arms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... Blessing as presidents. Blessing was appointed president of wealth management last month and previously ran the UBS Switzerland business since September 2016. Prior to UBS, he spent 15 years on the board of managing directors of Commerzbank, half of ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... minus 3.2% -- on the back of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comments At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that, "Obviously a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities." Obviously! Imagine all those cheaper ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... results, even sometimes including the use of any family history information at all. Meanwhile, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom do the same though only when policies are below certain limits. The paper shows that genetic testing ...

Fintech future lies in a winning ecosystem: Reinventure

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... attract investment, talent, and companies to Australian shores. "At the moment most blockchain companies are going to Switzerland because you can set up as a non-profit there and do an ICO (initial coin offering), or they're going to Singapore. So I ...