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Swiss Re to use artificial intelligence in underwriting

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... wider insurance industry." Named after IBM's first chief executive Thomas J. Watson, Watson is distributed remotely via cloud services and analyses large amounts of data to generate insights and refine its process through machine learning. It famously ...

SG Hiscock finds value far from ASX big caps

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... increase their prices with minimum negative impact on the customer base." The strategy sees opportunities in sectors such as cloud IT and satellite communications. "They are fertile ground for franchises," Burns says. "But if you have a strong position ...

Mercer selects customer management platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... PractiFI chief executive Glenn Elliott said the implementation at an institutional client site was an achievement for the cloud-based financial advice administration platform considering the product was launched 12 months ago. Elliott said the platform ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... multi-million investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was founded in Brisbane in 1997, to invest ...

ANZ signs $450m tech agreement with IBM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... and software across the group. The deal includes access to IBM's software portfolio, an Innovation Lab, next generation cloud development and core systems infrastructure. ANZ is looking to develop common platforms across all of its networks and to deliver ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Hedge funds should be thriving in the unusual low return environment. But instead of turning to the rock stars of funds management, investors are choosing safer and cheaper options. As managers warn about an Australian brain drain, experts talk about ...

Xero inking partnership for real-time PI insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Cloud-based accounting software company Xero is in talks with an insurer to provide data feeds to facilitate real-time professional indemnity insurance cover. Speaking to Financial Standard, Xero managing director Chris Ridd said that the real-time ...

Advice licensee uses tech to bypass paraplanning

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... growth. As part of the model Midwinter has worked with SSFS and EY to deliver the transformation. Midwinter has released its cloud based advice solution, AdviceOS, across the entire State Super Financial Services (SSFS) adviser network. Monaghan said ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... spends $1.2 billion on IT annually, and thankfully custodial services technology has become easier to use over the years. "Cloud data storage means we can use technology to build and transform products - a lot of them are regulatory driven," Taylor says. ...