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Business as usual for PIMCO Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... team. She is heading off to PIMCO's Newport Beach office for most of the rest of the year to work with head of client analytics Sebastien Page. When she returns to her permanent position in Sydney, she will be directly supporting our Australian clients ...

Cutting edge data tool finds super members most likely to defect

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The latest generation of data analytics software can tell super fund bosses who is most likely to leave their fund, and what to do to make them stay. Dr David Black is head of advanced analytics at Empirics. With over 10 years of academic experience ...

Executives lose sleep over changing regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Services chief executive Peter Baker said: "The most concerning operational issue is risk management - improving risk analytics and improving the risk-return profile of their portfolios - which worries over two-thirds of respondents. It also found that ...

More data leads to more bad decisions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... decisions is unstructured, and to me unstructured means unusable," she said. The answer to this, she said, is big data analytics. "You should be scared if you're not using big data analytics," she warned delegates. She said without big data analytics ...

Digital advice to jumpstart $5.6 trillion land grab

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... algorithm-based and automated advice) and 'insurance customised to behaviour and style' (bespoke solutions based on data analytics) are among the game-changers for banks - particularly if they want to win Gen X and Gen Y clients. The Telstra research ...

YBR adopts cloud-based planner software

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... systems, including those in the financial management division, financial planning, customer relationship management (CRM), analytics and reporting. The fully integrated cloud-based software "allows us to easily extend our business management capabilities ...

FEATURE: The metamorphosis of custody

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... by the move many super funds are making to bring investment in house. The need for sophisticated performance and risk analytics, dealing capabilities and clearing services is much higher for super funds that have in-house investment teams. For the full ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... which the two giants will collaborate on applications for Apple's iOS system, which will employ IBM's supercomputing analytics. Apple fell 0.6 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets have jumped higher owing to strong economic growth data from China ...

SunGard launches hedge fund risk reporting service

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... SunGard has launched its Hedge360 Risk Reporting Service which provides hedge funds with independently validated data and analytics to help carry out due diligence and risk management. SunGard said the fully hosted and managed service provides macro-scenario ...

Custodians fight hard for big super deals

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... global reach and technological capability are key to success. "A lot of the new technology has been in the investment analytics space. That's been a big part of being able to win our new clients," he said. According to December 2013, NAB is the biggest ...