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Guest Opinion: A Case for Belief-Aligned Investment Advice

29 May 2020 6 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.00

[Disclaimer: This post is intended to support investor activism, irrespective of investors’ political preferences.] If recent world events are any indication, we should expect to see an increase in individual investors demanding that their investment...

Guest Opinion: Millennial Mismatching in Housing Finance

28 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.01

Fellow NPR nerds likely spent this past week eagerly awaiting excerpts from an interview with Messrs. Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner (the “Committee of Three”) marking the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis that precipitated the Great Recession...

Guest Opinion: Recent Hacks Could Accelerate Risk Management Innovation

14 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.13

The severity of the recent data breaches at Equifax — in which personally identifiable information on over 143 million US consumers was stolen by unknown hackers — and the US Securities and Exchange Commission — whose Edgar database processes over 1....

Guest Opinions: The AI-Driven Bank in Emerging Markets

13 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.06

If you think artificial intelligence is a thing of the future, ask yourself why your Amazon homepage looks different from ours or how Google translates websites on the fly. Consumers in developed and developing countries are benefiting today from the...

Guest Opinion: The Coming Resurgence of Active Management

9 May 2020 3 minute read 1 comment FinRev $0.03

Active management has long been the foundation of a well-functioning stock market.  Many of the brightest minds on Wall Street have dedicated their careers to separating the good ideas from the bad, doing deep research to allocate capital to the righ...

Guest Opinion: A Sharper Focus on Wealth Management’s Future

8 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.03

Since Steve Jobs’ death in 2011, four biographies, three documentaries and three feature films have been released about him. His legend grows and he continues to inspire. Yet, those in the wealth management industry should never read another word abo...

Guest Opinion: Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

8 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.03

When the big data boom grabbed headlines in the early 2000’s, it was because the high-tech industry allocated R&D efforts to develop new data-driven applications for their businesses. Out of these developments came the rise of predictive analytics. I...

Nine Things That Could Happen Next Year

7 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.56

2016 was a bad year for most prognosticators. As such, we’re bringing a humble attitude to the table for our nine predictions for 2017. After all, we could be right on the call, and wrong on it materializing within the next 365 days. Conversely, we c...

Guest Opinion: Time to go Deep on Deep Learning

6 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.23

Time to go Deep on Deep LearningArtificial Intelligence is no longer something to be associated with the future. It is very much in the here and now, and is being employed by corporations and governments throughout the world to make decisions that im...

You Can’t Have Two First Priorities

4 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.05

In his recent testimony before the Senate Banking committee, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf  accepted accountability for the phony account scandal that overtook the bank under his watch. He also made it perfectly clear that encouraging employees to cros...