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Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... topics to be discussed at the 2015 AIMA Australia Hedge Fund Forum are the rise and implications of alternative beta and big data, the future of hedge fund research, the prospects for alpha generation and the outlook for CTAs.

Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... "Platforms of the future must be developed within an agile framework and feature modern architecture capable of supporting big data and analytics, as well as real-time, responsive integration."

ME Bank invests $90 million for a digital future

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
Industry super fund-owned ME Bank recently completed a $90 million digital transformation allowing it to analyse big data. ME Bank is now also able to offer new variable home loans among other functions, including the ability to analyse big data, delivering ...

EY and UTS form financial data partnership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... interaction and retention and risk. EY and UTS signed a five year agreement in which they agree to collaborate on analytics and big data initiatives across four key areas: joint research projects; learning delivery; collaborating on the design of graduate ...

Small data beats big data

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
Despite 90% of financial services professionals seeing big data as a priority for their business, very few understand how to use it, according to Mercer consumer marketing leader Cambell Holt. Speaking at the Financial Standard Marketing, Advertising ...

MAX Awards to showcase innovation in financial services sales and marketing

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... a forum that will address the challenges for today's financial services sales and marketing specialists including how big data impacts wealth management, what are the new range of investment products that will become popular in the future and what is ...

FEATURE: Big data and financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... device. Companies in all sectors are going to great lengths to meet this demand. The use of data, data analytics and big data has given businesses the deepest understanding of their customer base they have ever had. In many areas, Australia's financial ...

More data leads to more bad decisions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... to make 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 ...

In the throes of change

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... thought-provoking keynote speeches by author Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson (School of Thinking) and Rebecca Costa (The Impact of Big Data). Capping the conference will be a focus on Australian and overseas economies by RBC Capital Markets' AU/NZ head of ...

FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... promoting a general increase on contributions, they target particular segments," he explains. A better understanding of big data is allowing super funds to break up their members by risk sectors and to launch campaigns designed specifically for women ...