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Murray takes aim at industry culture

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... said "human systems" are far more important than technical systems. "We put enormous effort every day to ensure that machines, which don't have an opinion, are working properly... but we spend far less time on human systems, which affect people who do ...

Shareholder primacy a myth: Governance Institute

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... with broader stakeholder interests, such as mine development and hydraulic fracturing, corporation tax avoidance, poker machines and problem gambling, the impact of plastic beverage containers on the environment, and the link between fast food and obesity. ...

Advisers under threat from robot replacements

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... is likely to disappear and planners could be replaced by robots. That is the finding of a new study which reveals that machines could easily provide financial advice to consumers thanks to complex algorithms. Financial advice has a 58% probability of ...

Banks eye Google Glass as tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... developing a Google Glass application that will allow users to access bank accounts, make fund transfers or locate nearby ATM machines. The bank announced this week that it is currently developing an application for Google Glass, which is expected to ...

Maybe slowing, definitely distorted, more likely rebalancing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Ayy-yay-yay-yay-yay! Here we go again. Weak economic reports out of China have again put a question mark about its economy and by extension, the economy of the world. Oh sowee Virginia, I stand corrected... it wasn't a question mark, China's headed ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... to what happens in the economy". That's where the stupid comes in Virginia. Perhaps that's what happens when you let machines (algorithms) do the trading based on the headlines. They buy (or sell) even though things don't compute. Or it could be opportunistic ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... supply and demand apply anymore? And what about equities? I'm slowly beginning to believe that traders are letting the machines (algorithms) do the trading for them. This or the fear of the death of QE has sucked rational thinking out of their brains. ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... their old ATMs re-filled. According to Bloomberg, "More American homeowners will be able to use their properties as cash machines again after real estate equity jumped last year by the most in 65 years," because they now have positive equity. "The amount ...

Advisers open to double allocation to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... said. "Demand from China will continue to grow and cleanliness and relative cheapness of gas will see cars and other machines converted to run on gas." Despite Howitt's argument, however, Lodha said that the global reach of his portfolio meant that there ...