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GROW Super begins group insurance innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
GROW Super is partnering with one of the world's largest reinsurers to explore the potential for blockchain technology within group insurance. Entering a joint venture with Hannover Life Re Australasia, GROW will use R3's Corda blockchain infrastructure ...

NAB launches super virtual assistant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
NAB has launched a digital assistant that helps MLC members engage with their superannuation. Available on Google Home devices, Talk to MLC answers 15 common questions members ask: such as how to open an MLC account, find lost super and change investment ...

Australia's first OTC trading desk for digital currencies opens

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... whoever is making that trade," Independent Reserve chief executive Adrian Przelozny said. "In equity markets they solve that problem with dark pools and sales trading desks, but there is no digital currency equivalent in Australia as yet. By establishing ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... choose the annuity, he added. People generally don't choose annuities because they want to manage their own money - but the problem is as people age they're susceptible to cognitive deterioration. "On average someone over 60 earns 2% less per year [and] ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... because they had an awful lot of US dollar-denominated external debt. You borrow in US dollars and it goes up, you have a problem, he adds. "Very often that's when they defaulted. It's not necessarily the case now. Market is trading on a muscle memory ...

AI threatens financial services workers: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... language processing (39%). Groth said businesses using AI understand the integral role human skills like creativity and problem solving play in the future workplace. "Jobs won't be disappearing; they will be evolving and it's encouraging that 43% of ...

Traditional advice strategies pose retirement risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
HLB Mann Judd wealth management partner Jonathan Philpot said advisers should review wealth building strategies as the common tactic of investing savings in the name of the lower income-earning spouse once a mortgage has been paid off. This can have ...

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 ...

Siri and Alexa: The future of banking?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
Using artificial intelligence to do all your personal and business banking from the comfort of your own home may be closer than you realise, NAB predicts. NAB executive general manager, digital and innovation Jonathan Davey said the proliferation of ...

Aurora appoints new CFO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... be in the best interests of unitohlders. "Considering that Aurora has not been able to find a viable solution to this problem over the last four weeks, the RAML board has determined that if Aurora cannot find an acceptable, reasonable route to becoming ...