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UBS tops Australasian adviser tables for mergers and acquisitions

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... continued its run as the most targeted country for mergers and acquisitions throughout Asia Pacific in 2017. The market intelligence agency said the country's inbound deal count (176) and dollar value ($US41 billion) led the APAC region in the past 12 ...

AustralianSuper embraces goals-based advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... said. The new approach will be rolled out across all of the super fund's advice channels, including via artificial intelligence in the form of a new chatbot. With most people now unable to differentiate between a chatbot and a live consultant, Blackmore ...

Career progression positive for women advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
... is no age or gender preference when it comes to receiving financial advice, but rated females higher on emotional intelligence and empathy attributes. FSC chief executive Sally Loane said: "As the research shows, women are naturally suited to this people-focused ...

Advice industry must think bigger: Netwealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... that was put in place three, four, five years ago," Heine said. Respondents didn't consider blockchain, artificial intelligence or Know Your Customer (KYC) technologies to be gamechangers, despite the world's biggest companies already using them to great ...

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 ...