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February 13, 2023
日本では2003年に「貯蓄から投資へ」というスローガンが打ち出され、昨今では「貯蓄から資産形成へ」と進化しています。米国でも個人が資産形成を目指す方向は同じですが、ウェルス・マネジメント企業にとっては、世帯の資産状況に応じたセグメンテーション・アプローチが有効だと考えられています。ここでは2023年1月に発行したレポート:Balance Sheets of the American Investor : An Analysis of the Survey of Consumer Finance から、米国のウェルス・マネジメント業界におけるセグメント分けとサービス内容の考え方をご紹介します。 ■ ネットワース(Net Worth)別アプローチ 「ネットワース」は会計用語で企業の総資産額から総負債額を引いた金額を示すものだが、ウェルスマネジメント業界では、...
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February 10, 2023
There has been a lot of hype surrounding a new technology released at the end of November 2022 called ChatGPT. I believe ChatGPT is an embryo, not even fully born… yet! ChatGPT is a natural language processing (NLP) chatbot utilizing OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) language model, created in May 2020. The model predicts the next token value of a response based on previous...
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February 9, 2023
The Commercial Banking & Payments (CB&P) team recently published its analysis of 10 key trends impacting the industry in 2023, covering topics such as payments infrastructure enabling real-time everything, virtual account management, M&A activity, and IT spend. While most of these trends impact one vertical to a greater degree than others, there are broad issues impacting nearly every...
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February 8, 2023
ChatGPT, as we all know, went from nonexistent to fodder for dinner-party conversations and late-night monologues in the span of about two weeks—an unprecedented hype curve. Many of us are supposedly going to lose our jobs when they are automated away by this technology.  Well, here at Aite-Novarica Group, we decided to test these notions. Can an AI write as well as or...
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February 7, 2023
One of the most common areas of discussion now with CIOs and CTOs in Aite-Novarica Group’s Insurance Technology Research Council is related to finding, and keeping, the talent needed to run effective operations. Technology has always been an important underpinning of the insurance industry, but the age of this tech has taken on increased urgency in the pandemic/post-pandemic era. Digitization...
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Robert McIsaac
February 6, 2023
連邦準備制度理事会(FRB)は、米大手銀行6社に対して気候変動に伴う複数のシナリオを提示し、ローン事業への影響に関する情報提供を求めています(一部では「気候変動ストレス・テスト」と報道していますが・・)。対象金融機関は、Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargoの6行で、7月末が提出期限となっています。 ■ FRBパイロット・プログラム概要 米連邦準備制度理事会(FRB)は、2022年9月に異常気象が金融機関のローン・ポートフォリオや事業戦略にどのような影響を与えるかを大手6行を対象に調査すると発表していたが、2023年に入り、依頼する情報提供の内容詳細:パイロット気候シナリオ分析エクササイズ(Pilot Climate Scenario...
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February 2, 2023
The competition for talent in insurance and other industries seems to have hit fever pitch over the last couple of years. We have seen the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, and, more recently, career cushioning all contributing to the difficulty of retaining talent and knowledge in the workplace. Whatever new name is given to trends in the workforce, it is clear that attracting and...
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January 31, 2023
Happy New Year! And welcome to 2023, a year which appears to offer great promise, fascinating contradictions, and some real risks for insurance carriers as they execute in what feels like a different era. The changes we have experienced over the past three years have been profound and, in many ways, have altered our trajectory.  We are, we hope, finally entering a post-pandemic era. Many...
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Robert McIsaac
January 30, 2023
Q: ChatGPT – Angelic or evil?   A: Neither. If you haven’t experimented with ChatGPT, it is what computers do in the movies. Ask a question, get an answer.} ChatGPT is a tool. It is not inherently endowed with good or evil.   When initially experimenting with ChatGPT, I was reminded of the first time I saw a browser or saw Java. The possibilities are clear—the initial...
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January 26, 2023
Like many other travelers this holiday season, I woke up on Christmas Eve to the notification that my Southwest flight had been canceled. The process of rebooking was straightforward; I was able to easily change my flight to a later date from my phone. For the moment, I was mildly annoyed but otherwise unbothered. Three days later, my flight was canceled again, and then my trip altogether....
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