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Financial literacy the bridge for income protection gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... income losses is not a repeated expenditure like other common financial obligations, people do not have the benefit of 'learning by doing', the report highlights. "Competence in managing personal finances must be imparted through a mutually reinforcing ...

FICAP announces new charity partner

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
The Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) has announced Learning Links as its newest charity partner. The 11th charity to be supported by FICAP since 2006, Learning Links was established by parents concerned about the lack of appropriate ...

Peer-learning popular among self-licensed advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
Self-licensed financial advisers are in favour of peer-based learning when it comes to knowing more about managed accounts. The latest survey of self-licensed businesses in the IOOF Alliances network showed advisers prefer engaged and interactive community ...

Quant manager ties momentum with machine

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... quantitative investment manager has turned the clock to re-evaluate its momentum strategies, using expertise in machine learning to build better alpha-capturing trading systems. In his recent trip to Australia, Man AHL chief scientist Anthony Ledford ...

Students to manage university fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... students make decisions taking into account that the money isn't real." "Our Student Investment Fund provides an authentic learning experience that includes a hands-on education, managing Griffith University funds." Bianchi added that providing access ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Machine learning is transforming the way financial services operates, as a growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial ...

New industry body to launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... reinsurers and brokers and other insurance related disciplines, including health, wellbeing, data and analytics, machine learning, the Internet of Things and telematics. In 2016 about US$1.69 billion was invested in insurtech startups worldwide but just ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Check out this blog to get an hourly update on the latest announcements, session highlights and social media commentary live at the AFA 2017 National Adviser Conference. 10.30pm - AFA caps its annual conference with an awards gala ceremony for the 2017 ...

Increased scrutiny driving regtech need

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... conduct an immediate compliance check. "We are building education pieces into the engine - bite-sized chunks of micro-learning - so advisers are able to detect when they have made a mistake, self-correct and learn as they go," Kaplan chief executive ...

Advisers back higher education standards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... University of Sydney Business School academic Helen Parker says there's a lot to be gained by completing further education. "Learning should be a lifelong thing anyway - there's no room now for nothing more than a 20-year old diploma," she says. Those ...