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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 ...

State Street introduces machine learning tool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
State Street has launched a machine learning solution to help investment professionals wade through the plethora of research reports they receive on a daily basis. Through the combination of machine learning and human expertise, the new Quantextual ...

Financial services employees want digital strategy input: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... skills to handle the technological changes. The sector is embracing new technologies such as cloud computing, machine learning, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence; rethinking strategies, and seeking to personalise and enhance customer experience ...

Nothing to fear from robo-advice: Magellan

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... Throughout the hour-and-a-half presentation Douglass said his team is looking at artificial intelligence and machine learning and how it may impact funds management. To date he hasn't seen a big data set that would materially change the way Magellan ...

AIST names rising star

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... the position of chief investment officer in the future. Judges highlighted Wu's contribution to State Super's machine learning program which attempts to analyse data to inform investments. "Charles has been instrumental in a number of successful projects ...

Asset managers need more tech leaders in C-suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... the managed funds segment, the scale and speed at which new technologies such as blockchain, robo-advice and machine learning are challenging business models makes adding technologists to strategic levels a corporate imperative." "The industry has much ...

Nikko AM to disrupt with acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... it believes are leading and benefiting from cross-sector innovations such as robotics, 3D printing, big data, machine learning, blockchain technology, cloud computing, energy storage, and DNA sequencing. Nikko AM described the move as a natural progression ...

Xero seeks global growth, director steps down

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
New Zealand-based accounting software company Xero has reaffirmed its commitment to machine learning and artificial intelligence to reduce compliance costs and arm accountants and financial advisers "with the tools required to support the world's small ...