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Platform business in administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... last Friday to Spitfire Corporation and operating subsidiaries (Spitfire Asset Management, Spitfire Operations, Spitfire Machines). They are also acting as liquidators to Aspiro. Operations of Investar and Spitfire QP were unaffected. "Our first task ...

Active versus passive: The debate continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... passive investment strategy is that active simply costs too much. "You have these companies that are asset gathering machines, and that's why you've seen a lot of these large mergers of which I am yet to see a version that's actually worked ...

Super smashes best-performing salaries list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... pay millions to have thousands of documents manually reviewed - but today much of that labour has been handed over to machines. Construction workers in the fields of planning and scheduling have also seen their pay packet shrink by 18% to $100,052 per ...

Call for super funds to divest gambling interests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... An Australian Ethical video produced as part of the campaign named AMP as a super fund that "invests in building pokie machines." While super funds holding investments in Woolworths, Coles and Wesfarmers might not be surprising, the research found many ...

Industry Super Holdings slammed for weapons investment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... million in subsidies from Australian taxpayers and has signed over $400 million in deals to "supply high-tech killing machines" to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, SumOfUs wrote on its website. "Australia's top defence officials last week ...

Quirky SMSF investments unveiled

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... investments include: Commercial washers and dryers worth $134,000 returned $55,000 of income in FY18; Two water vending machines worth $27,500 that returns 15% per annum; About 260 units of water rights valued at $563,200; A sewing machine worth $18,130 ...

Chatbots will move from consumer finance to corporate: BAML

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... might have otherwise been done by an associate-level banker. "With intelligent automation and artificial intelligence, machines can open up that [customer] email, can read it, can quickly decide what is the client trying to find out and they can either ...

The goals-based opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... approach and the ongoing sustainability of the advice industry, Henderson said. Looking to the future, she said: "Data, machines and algorithms will be utilised to perform much of the calculation, research and compliance functions of financial advice. ...

Aberdeen Standard launches AI-powered global equity fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
... market changes through time," he said. Standard Life Aberdeen co-chief executive Martin Gilbert said the ability to use machines to read and understand vast amounts of data to forecast market moves accurately for active investment managers has spawned ...

CBA settles with AUSTRAC for $700m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... CBA admitted to the late filing of 53,506 threshold transaction reports for cash deposits through intelligent deposit machines (IDMs); inadequate adherence to risk assessment requirements for IDMs on 14 occasions; and that transaction monitoring did ...