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Republic Capital chief executive departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... executive director Laurence Milne, specialising in automated investments via its platform, Republic Wealth. The platform employs robo-advice, managed discretionary accounts and full-service advice.

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 ...

Accountants expand robo-advice reach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
Robo-advice is now more accessible for accountants via a new program introduced by digital investment adviser and fund manager Stockspot. Having been beta tested throughout 2016, Stockspot has launched its Partner Program to accountants, providing them ...

Aussie investors push tobacco exclusions

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... services, it's technology that is now finally kicking this angle," he said. "Whether it's different quantitative strategies or robo-advisers or other metrics, it's a natural cleansing process. It's great ground-shaking turmoil but it's totally expected." ...

BlackRock moves to machine stock picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
After an extensive review BlackRock has restructured its active equities product offering and affirmed its plans to integrate artificial intelligence, hinting that future jobs will be aligned with robots. In positioning itself for the future, the world's ...

Fintechs and instos must align: Saxo

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... Securities. Fournais said Saxo has about 120 white-label partnerships globally, serving large banks, smaller start-ups including robo advisers, and news sites. Saxo Capital Markets, through SaxoTraderGO, recently launched a service that allows clients ...

Robo-advice portfolios benefiting from quant factors

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Returns from thematic robo-advice portfolios can be boosted by using quantitative metrics that won't increase investors' risk, according to digital investment solutions company Quantifeed. In its whitepaper, Designing thematic indices with a quantitative ...

Vanguard chief says embrace robo-advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... going to put their interests first," McNabb said. McNabb also believes that advice businesses can benefit from embracing robo-advice. "There's so much discussion around the rise of robo-advice and whether it's going to disrupt the traditional markets ...

Mercer partners for robo-advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
More than two million Australians will benefit from a digital advice partnership between Mercer and a leading software firm. The reach of Decimal's digital advice solution, Eqilize, is set to surge following a deal with Mercer to offer Eqilize to both ...

Ignition Wealth appoints head of advice

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... overseeing Ignition Wealth's new XPLAN consultancy division, aimed at providing XPLAN support for advisers looking to add robo-advice services to their businesses. Before PlanFocus, Corben founded Corben Young Consulting. He was also previously manager ...