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Modern Silk Road presents investment jewel

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
Quantifeed launched a model portfolio for investors looking to capitalise on "the biggest macro-economic story of the century." A 21st century replication of the famed Silk Road, the China-led Belt and Road Initiative will involve the construction of ...

Financial lifestyle coaching: The future of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... value in providing informed and insightful financial advice. "The combination of introducing regtech tools that leverage 'big data' and streamline advisers' regulatory reporting processes, as well as providing an AI-powered finance tracking app for 'low-touch' ...

Executives must think beyond the technical

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... [might know more than me] about the work that they do is not a weakness," she said. What she brought to the table was the big picture. One audience member pointed out that in the face of digital disruption, job automation and FoFA - which are taking ...

Complex operations leaving life customers confused

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... insurance. Senator Williams pressed AMP chief executive Craig Meller and group executive insurance Megan Beer about this "big problem we have", adding 50% of young people don't know they've got life insurance through their super while the remainder don't ...

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... result of this approach, he said, "you don't see the usual suspects. Why is Samsung the top holding in most EM funds? It's a big weight in the benchmark, for one, and so many funds have gotten so big that they have to own the big stocks." (LGM's fund ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... investors to easily direct their money in to global markets. "In Australia the set of managed superannuation funds is quite big but they're heavily exposed to domestic equities. The Australian capital market size is limited, meanwhile its fund size is ...

Asset managers need more tech leaders in C-suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... challenge. Whether these businesses are running technology as a strategic or operational function, today it's seen as "a very big cost base." Other research has demonstrated all too often the paradox of the more money sunk into technology, the less efficient ...

Less room for mid-tier asset managers: Stern

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... boutique. Because in between that, you're going to have a hard time competing with a global platform while also being too big to say, 'This is my product and strategy.'" To illustrate, he proposed an investment: selling Swiss francs to buy Indian rupees. ...

FinaMetrica merges with global software provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... expansion of its collaborative scaled advice platform from DIY to adviser-driven. It is also exploring the opportunities in big-data and artificial intelligence as a means of strandardising and automating the Know Your Client process. The merger will ...

Nikko AM to disrupt with acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... identifying companies that it believes are leading and benefiting from cross-sector innovations such as robotics, 3D printing, big data, machine learning, blockchain technology, cloud computing, energy storage, and DNA sequencing. Nikko AM described ...