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Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
The world's largest fund manager has shifted the goal posts for active equity investment, announcing it will take the enormous step of combining humans and machines for stock selection. The question is what scale does this new man and machine combination ...

Family office manager expands

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... BlueSky Alternative Investments for two years. Toohey is a co-founder and former chief investment officer of Investment Science Asset Management where he designed and managed the quantitative component of a futures hedge fund. His previous experience ...

BlackRock moves to machine stock picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... performance to our clients," BlackRock global head of active equities Mark Wiseman said. The firm is investing further in data science to provide investable insights and dividing its active equity product offerings into four product ranges, including ...

Instreet launches VC fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... investors to take advantage of tax incentives provided as part of the Australian Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, which aims to support entrepreneurship," Instreet managing director George Lucas said. Investors may receive a tax offset ...

MLC reveals new executive team

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... Disney, Apple, and Amazon." "The customer must be at the heart of everything we do. By improving our digital and data science capabilities and learning from other leading customer experience organisations, we hope to simplify and transform the experience ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... workers' rights 8. Free trade with European markets 9. New trade agreements with other countries 10. The best place for science and innovation 11. Cooperation in the fight against crime and terrorism 12. A smooth, orderly Brexit "But there is one further ...

Clydesdale director departs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... been managing director at Yorkshire Television. He was also chair of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Science City York CLG, Imagesound, Sheffield Hallam University and Yorkshire Initiative International Business Convention. At CYBG ...

The era of the retirement consultant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... Milliman's Jeff Gebler said. A retirement consultant is described as holding a blend of skills encompassing actuarial, data science, investment management, behavioural finance and communications, and digital competence. Gebler, a financial risk management ...

MYOB appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... independent non-executive director joined MYOB's board on January 1. Fiona Pak-Poy is currently a member of Innovation and Science Australia's Biomedical Translation Fund Committee as well as a director at SIRCA and iSentia. She has previously held directorships ...

Brandon Capital to build largest Commonwealth VC fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Brandon Capital will lead a group of venture capital firms tasked with managing the government's $500 million Biomedical Translation Fund (BTF). Brandon Capital will drive the development of its life sciences fund, the Medical Research Commercialisation ...