Index Funds Have Officially Won
The rise of indexing has done much to focus the minds of fund managers, advisers, and the end-client. AI is now doing exactly the same thing Last month, for the first time, passively-managed funds controlled…
UK Cyber Risks to Pension Schemes in 2024
In this article, we look at some of the critical and cyber-related risks and questions that pension trustees, corporates and members should be asking of each other and themselves. 2023 saw the first major…
Ghana, 600,000 Self-Employed Enrolled in SSNIT Pension Scheme
Since the launch of the Self-Employed Enrolment Drive (SEED) initiative by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), some 600,000 self-employed persons have been enrolled on the programme, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has…
Routine way of blending multi asset funds keeps biases impacting returns
Intermediaries are facing “unintended consequences” by blending multi asset funds together using only a past performance-based approach, according to Scopic Research. Managing director Paul Ilott pointed to how combining multi asset funds that have passed…
What’s an insurance copilot?
Last February, Microsoft rolled out Copilot, an artificial intelligence assistant that can write poems and code. But what exactly is a copilot and how are insurers using this type of generative AI? Digital Insurance reached out…
Advisers say digital wealth managers pushing them into retirement
Researchers working for Investec Wealth & Investment quizzed 100 IFAs and financial planners Four in five advisers (81%) said they believe a key reason their peers are retiring is the competition from online wealth…
Fintech Robos and American University in Cairo Sign Partnership for Financial Awareness in Arab World
Manama, Bahrain – The American University in Cairo (AUC) and Fintech Robos, the Bahrain-based provider of savings and pensions technology, have signed a long-term partnership this week aiming to enhance financial awareness through research, behavioural…
UK’s defined benefit universe continues to shrink – Pensions Regulator
The U.K.’s defined benefit and hybrid universe continues to shrink at a consistent rate, down 2% to 5,297 plans in 2023, while almost three-quarters of plans are now in surplus, according to The Pensions Regulator.…
AI and advice: The beginning of a beautiful friendship?
Is AI revolutionising financial planning? With artificial intelligence (AI) dating back to the 1950s, the technology is nothing new in the world of financial advice, however, its use has increased in recent times, with many…
Is advice really all just about money at the end of the day?
A look at whether the most money possible is all clients care about Hope Coumbe delves into an adviser’s recent admission about what their clients care about and how true it is across the board……
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