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Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... greater application of machine learning will be evident in end-to-end strategy development, deep learning for time series analysis, and analysing data across languages. In Australia, 46% of respondents in the Bloomberg survey are using machine learning ...

GPS robo-adviser launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... produce quality advice on demand and bring the cost down to nothing," he said. The basic option provides free budgeting analysis, tax, investment and super recommendation, and life insurance review. The full digitised adviser option costs $59 per month ...

Super guarantee must be 12pct: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... lifted to 12% as soon as possible because retirement balances are still nowhere near where they need to be. Latest ASFA analysis shows Australia's $2.3 trillion super system is delivering larger superannuation balances to both men and women, and in turn ...

Active the best way forward for super: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... funds construct their investment portfolios, and hence the returns earned by members. He goes on to explain that past analysis has only assessed whether investment markets were static - but it's widely known this is not the case. "The real world and ...

Standard Life launches impact fund, appoints managers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... management is an essential component of successful impact investing. Engagement with management is necessary, both for impact analysis and to encourage better behaviours and disclosures," Norris said.

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... of the PCE price index. This shift, announced by Alan Greenspan during his testimony to Congress, came after extensive analysis done by the Fed. The conclusion was that the PCE has several advantages over the CPI, including (1) the changing composition ...

Advisers can transform tragedy

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... trustworthy association. "You can talk all day about the rules and regulations, you can talk all day about financial data and analysis, but at the core that's not why you're a financial adviser and it's not why your clients come to you," Florian said. ...

BlackRock boosts Australian distribution footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... specialist for five years. Prior to that, Dorney spent six years at Westpac Banking Corporation working across credit analysis and relationship management, structured and institutional property, and corporate and institutional banking. Jeannie Bredberg ...

Proceedings filed against CBA in Federal Court

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... institutional investors." Maurice Blackburn national head of class actions Andrew Watson added: "Our investigations and analysis show that this drop was in the top one per cent of price movements that CBA experienced in the past five years, so clearly ...

No more slack?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... hurricanes Harvey and Irma to distort the employment numbers. Even the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says so: "Our analysis suggests that the net effect of these hurricanes was to reduce the estimate of total nonfarm payroll employment for September." ...