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Mar 20, 2025 • 22min

Investment Ideas: Disease

Could superannuation help solve our healthcare funding crisis? In our latest instalment of Investment Ideas, hosts Douglas Isles and Jan Swinhoe speak with Dr Raymond Yeow, a unique voice in healthcare who combines perspectives as both a GP and an actuary.
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Mar 13, 2025 • 20min

Investment Ideas: Digitisation

"We're witnessing a historic democratisation of data and AI capability," says Zilinka Jiang, Executive, Data Science at Quantium.In Digitisation, Zilinka sits down with hosts Jan Swinhoe and Douglas Isles to discuss the transformative potential of AI, practical applications, and how AI can enhance investmentmanagement.
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Mar 6, 2025 • 22min

Investment Ideas: Decumulation

How can retirees confidently spend their super without fear of running out? In our latest instalment of Investment Ideas, hosts Jan Swinhoe and Douglas Isles explore the challenges of the decumulation phase with Giacomo Tarantolo from Unisuper and Estelle Liu from AMP, specialists in retirement solutions.
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Feb 27, 2025 • 28min

Investment Ideas: Demographics

Are we ready for a world with fewer babies and longer lives?In the latest instalment of Investment Ideas, Jan Swinhoe and Douglas Isles sit down with Dr David Knox AM and Associate Professor Katja Hanewald to explore the economic and investment implications of global demographic shifts.
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Feb 20, 2025 • 19min

Investment Ideas: Decarbonisation

How do complex views on decarbonisation create investment opportunities?In the third episode of Investment Ideas, Nicolette Rubenstein AM, incoming Chair of Greenpeace and financial services non-executive director, speaks with Jan Swinhoe about Australia’s energy transition and how diverse views on decarbonisation create opportunities for investors.
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Feb 13, 2025 • 21min

Investment Ideas: Debt

As nations continue to respond to crises by taking on more debt, are we kicking the can down the road on global debt sustainability?In the second episode of Investment Ideas, Debt, Douglas Isles sits down with Simon Warner, Head of Portfolio Management at Aware Super, to explore how investors should think about debt sustainability and the factors that influence debt markets.
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Feb 6, 2025 • 20min

Investment Ideas: Deglobalisation

The debut episode of “Investment Ideas” dives straight into one of the most significant forces reshaping global markets: deglobalisation.Co-hosts Jan Swinhoe and Douglas Isles speak with Belinda Cheung, Director in the Economics and Capital Markets team at Future Fund, and Annette King, non-executive director, former CEO, and former President of the Actuaries Institute, to explore how geopolitical shifts are transforming investment opportunities and risks in 2025 and beyond.
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Jun 19, 2024 • 15min

ConverseAI: Data Science Applications in Superannuation

In the latest episode of ConverseAI, host Tong Zhang speaks with Estelle Liu about how data science can help address key challenges in superannuation, including large-scale projections, understanding customer lifetime value and predicting member behaviour.
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Mar 20, 2024 • 55min

ConverseAI: Applications and Development

In our latest episode of ConverseAI, host Aidan Sussman chats with actuaries Ean Chan and Minh Phan, and data scientist William Zheng on the large language model (LLM) applications they use to assist, from text summarisation to assisting classification for pricing and cost models.  They also discuss the recent developments within the LLM industry and the benefits of using retrieval augmented generation (RAGs) versus fine-tuning to guarantee your output aligns with your intentions.🎧 Listen now.View the transcript.
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Dec 7, 2023 • 26min

The Actuarial Algorithm

In our latest episode of ConverseAI, host Meg Yang chats with industry experts Jacky Poon, Jon Shen, and Andres Villegas Ramirez on the integration of generative AI within the actuarial profession.Listen now.View the transcript.

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