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Game theory revolutionises risk profiling

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... risk profiling is rising in Australia with the launch of a platform already being used by several advice groups. United States-based behavioural economics, decision science and financial technology firm Capital Preferences has developed a SaaS (Software ...

Aussie fintech usage surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... overseas operations as a priority for the next 12 months. Many are targeting the United Kingdom (49%), Singapore (40%), United States (38%), New Zealand (27%) and Hong Kong and Canada (22%) to expand. Fintech Australia president Simon Cant said the results ...

Former Lehman Brothers chief unveils new asset manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... collapse, Fuld has taken on consulting roles and posts at Legend Securities and Matrix Advisors. He testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he took "full responsibility for the decisions that I made ...

Former HUB24 executive joins global data provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... asset managers have attracted US$6.3 billion in net total assets from European investors and US$5.8 billion from United States investors. Meanwhile, over the last five years institutional investors were net allocators to traditional investment products ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... discriminating against an applicant who refuses to take a genetic test. For comparison, China, Finland, India, Spain and the United States have no regulation on the use of genetic test results, while Greece and Japan have no regulation but do abide by ...

ASIC adds life insurance to school curriculums

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... Professional Standards for Teachers workforce. In the same vein, albeit via a different means of delivery, schools in the United States are also benefitting from financial literacy initiatives; rock band Gooding is travelling the country, performing ...

Asset managers must work on unique value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... result of greater competition in the sector. Research from Cerulli Associates shows 58% of asset managers in the United States are currently offering asset allocations consisting entirely of their own underlying strategies, with Cerulli senior analyst ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... 2.13%. All these, because nuclear war didn't break out. The expected serious escalation of tensions between the United States and North Korea didn't materialise. It still is as it was... hreats ("gift packages to the US") and counter-threats (sanctions) ...

Boutiques actively proving value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... study, titled 'The boutique advantage', was modelled on a similar study conducted by Affiliated Managers Group in the United States which delivered similar results. The analysis did not include multi-managers, index funds or listed investment compani ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Scary headlines over the prospect of an all-out war between North Korea and the United States (and its allies) continue to flood cyberspace. The latest of which is America's ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley's remark that Kim Jong-un is "begging ...