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Social media boosting super fund engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... the short-term, funds continue to explore digital tools, including technologies such as chat-bots and artificial intelligence, but there is a realisation that technology for its own sake is not the goal." Given the limited resources, only those technologies ...

The age of algorithmic advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... social and real-time financial context and feed it into the technology. Pefin, touted as the world's first artificial intelligence adviser, estimates human beings over a lifespan have between five to eight million data points based on every decision ...

PIMCO launches adviser education tool

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... education platform to provide online resources for advisers about fixed income and global markets. The new PIMCO Market Intelligence platform includes a six-part CPD-accredited course along with case studies, video tutorials and other educational supplements. ...

Deutsche AM maps impact of climate risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... location of corporate facilities and their exposure to climate risks. Partnering with a California-based climate intelligence advisory firm Four Twenty Seven, the physical locations of more than one million global corporate facilities have been mapped ...

Aussie fintech usage surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... currencies, big data and analytics, and social and B2B networks. Fintech Hyper Anna for example, is an artificial intelligence system that answers simple business queries via data analysis. Another is Coinbase, a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants ...

Advisers divided on mixing advice: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... officer Hamish Douglass told advisers recently there is nothing to fear about robo-advice in the age of artificial intelligence. "I'd argue that if you think of your business as a model where you are really there as a counsellor and consultant to something ...

NAB to simplify operations via job cuts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... the 2000 new roles will involve different capabilities to support the strategy such as data scientists, artificial intelligence, robotics and automation. "This will result in a net reduction in staff currently targeted at approximately 4000 by the end ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... languages. In Australia, 46% of respondents in the Bloomberg survey are using machine learning to solve sophisticated intelligence when trading, while 34% use it to process complex data in a better way. One-in-five (22%) said the ability to automate ...

Banks will step out of wealth: Medcraft

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... whistleblowers should a company go bankrupt in the meantime. He said whistleblowers give the regulator some of its best intelligence. ASIC created a whistleblowing unit in recent years because whistleblowers themselves are under pressure and need specific ...

Fintech regulatory sandbox draft legislation released

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... than 160 financial institutions in 36 countries, including four of Australia's largest banks, showed that artificial intelligence, blockchain and the Internet of Things are redefining the nature of financial services. Every Australian respondent already ...