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Waters Wavelength Podcast Interview Series: PanAgora’s George Mussalli and Mike Chen hit on topics including building predictive models using point-in-time data, and balancing ESG portfolios.
Podcast Timestamps
2:00 To start, George and Mike give background on PanAgora and the firm’s ultimate investment strategy.
6:00 Mike explains what ESG means to PanAgora.
9:00 George lays out the investment objective for a chief investment officer when incorporating ESG into a portfolio.
15:00 Let’s get hypothetical: A company is extremely climate efficient and has extremely high employee satisfaction, but they have terrible board diversity and make monetary contributions to organizations that are deemed poor when it comes to social justice issues do you ditch that company even if it’s producing solid returns? How do you build a flexible framework to
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Kmart releases latest furniture products with AR and chatbot retail experience
Latest campaign is part of the retailer’s renewed brand position and strategy that launched in 2019
Kmart has released its latest Online Exclusives products, part of a move to broaden this product range which debuted last year. And it s tapping AI and chatbot functionality to drive consumer demand.
The retailer s ambition is to continue expanding this offering and provide customers with greater access to larger format Australian designed homewares.
Following the initial launch, where styles were released as a test and learn, the range now comprises over 155 lines across furniture, bedding, rugs, nursery products, outdoor and fitness equipment. Kmart has again added an augmented reality (AR) component, allowing 48 of the products to be visualised in a customer’s home using an AR-compatible smartphone. It also has the KBot assist, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chat assistant that an
Good News for Visually Impaired: Facebook can Describe Photos Better for You by Hannah Joy on January 21, 2021 at 1:38 PM
Facebook can now generate descriptions of photos posted on its platform, and Instagram for the visually-impaired users, as it has made new improvements in its artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Way back in 2016, Facebook introduced a new technology called automatic alternative text (AAT) that utilizes object recognition to generate descriptions of photos on demand so that blind or visually impaired individuals can more fully enjoy their News Feed. We ve been improving it ever since and are excited to unveil the next generation of AAT, the company said in a statement late on Tuesday.
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As part of its three-year strategic plan, one of the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing’s (HKEX’s) goals was to use technology to modernize its core functions. In the past two years, some examples of this work include its next-generation post-trade platform, stock connect programs, and the buildout of its data marketplace platform.
While work on some of those projects is ongoing, one of the solutions that HKEX has already put in place is an artificial system called Jura, which is intended to