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Tradies test predictive underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... ANZ Wealth partnered with Advanced Analytics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS AAi) to use machine learning and big data to build a more reliable application and assessment process. UTS AAi associate professor Guandong Xu said it ...

AustralianSuper boosts digital capabilities for engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... online for five hours a day. With the interactions currently overseen by consultants, Blackmore predicts the machine learning technology behind the chatbot will be advanced enough to run unsupervised and 24/7 by mid-year. "We saw an opportunity to better ...

Morningstar fuels fund ratings with AI

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... funds rating process to rate more than 10,000 products. The research house has launched Quantitative Rating, a machine learning and quant-driven system that boasts the ability to rate funds at six times the rate of a Morningstar analyst based in the ...

SuperConcepts enhances document management system

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... searchable. SuperConcepts chief technology officer Kurt Groeneveld said the system uses the latest capabilities and machine learning to drive efficiencies for accountants and advisers. Groeneveld added the new document management system builds on SuperMate's ...

AI threatens financial services workers: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... head for Australia and New Zealand Andrew Groth said. AI deployment to-date is predominantly in the areas of machine learning (51%), automated reasoning (48%), robotics (47%), knowledge representation (44%) and natural language processing (39%). Groth ...

Venture capital sector booming but needs greater government support

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
Millennial super fund Spaceship, artificial intelligence and machine learning companies were among the beneficiaries of Australia's booming venture capital market in 2017, but two industry bodies have called on the Government to increase its support ...

ANZ Wealth tests AI-driven underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... collaboration with the Advanced Analytics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS AAi) will use machine learning and big data to develop a more reliable application and assessment process. UTS AAi associate professor Guandong Xu said it ...

Quant manager ties momentum with machine

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... quantitative investment manager has turned the clock to re-evaluate its momentum strategies, using expertise in machine learning to build better alpha-capturing trading systems. In his recent trip to Australia, Man AHL chief scientist Anthony Ledford ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Machine learning is transforming the way financial services operates, as a growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial ...

New industry body to launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... reinsurers and brokers and other insurance related disciplines, including health, wellbeing, data and analytics, machine learning, the Internet of Things and telematics. In 2016 about US$1.69 billion was invested in insurtech startups worldwide but just ...