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Financial services employees want digital strategy input: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
Financial services' rapid deployment of intelligent customer-facing technologies are "existentially threatening" to a majority of the sector's employees, latest research shows. Three quarters (76%) of the 1390 respondents in a Microsoft survey believe ...

Hiking life premiums is short-term thinking: ANZ Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... targeted and clearly differentiated products that focus on returning disabled claimants to health by leveraging new technologies for seamless, personalised underwriting and tailored communications, the paper noted. "A broader choice of life insurance ...

FPA Congress will highlight value of relationships

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... others." Also on the program is futurist Mike Walsh who will open the Congress with a discussion around the way emerging technologies are changing the way we live, work and interact. Complementing this, Dr Daniel Susskind will also appear to share his ...

Financial lifestyle coaching: The future of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... environment," the whitepaper reads. Discussing digital solutions, the 'think tank' predicted that increasingly capable technologies will not supersede the human element of financial advice but instead be leveraged by businesses to provide greater value. ...

Artificial intelligence provides adviser advantage

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... the business to look beyond the horizon of innovation. "To achieve this, organisations must focus on four groups of technologies we believe are nearing exponential breakthroughs and will be the most impactful in the next five years - artificial intelligence ...

Insurers require urgent start-up collaborations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... (they placed second out of the 10 start-ups that took part in the program) it resulted in MetLife deploying 10 new technologies across the business very effectively, he said. Munich Re head of research and development in the life insurance sector, Vanessa ...

Asset managers need more tech leaders in C-suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... said. Empowering the right people with the IT background would mean having someone who knows how to leverage new technologies in terms of what to build, buy in, who to partner with, and steer some of those strategic decision for the organisation, Tomlinson ...

Blue Sky partners for property investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... considerations for today's students, we also expect to create benefits through reduced operating costs by integrating technologies that significantly lower base building energy usage," Singleton said. CEFC chief executive Ian Learmonth added: "We are ...

Insurtech is coming and could make insurance obsolete: PwC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... including vehicles, refrigerators and toasters to the internet - makes insurance obsolete, arguing that interconnecting technologies will make lives safer to the point where insurance becomes unnecessary. "Connected smart devices will lead to less risk ...

Fintechs pose disintermediation threat: CFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... example offer low marginal cost wealth management service via the internet and mobile devices with the help of internet technologies, big data analysis, quantitative financial models and algorithms." In May, the institute announced it will add AI and ...