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APRIL 15, 2024

Why attend FutureIT Toronto ? Because it’s more than just a conference; it’s an experience that will challenge, inspire, and empower you to chart your course in the digital age. On April 23, 2024, CIO + IDC host FutureIT Toronto. Take a journey through the realms of cloud technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and tech leadership and join in for a day filled with insightful discussions, meaningful connections, and unforgettable insights that will help shape the future of your busin

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mention

APRIL 15, 2024

The mission of an employer brand manager is to cultivate and amplify the reputation of their organization as an employer of choice. Central to this role is crafting a compelling narrative that showcases the company’s values , culture, and growth opportunities to attract top talent. This involves developing strategies to promote the employer brand across various channels, ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process, and engaging with current employees to unde

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 15, 2024

Explore how data structures and algorithms power software development. Learn key concepts and best practices for efficient coding.

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Chris Webb BI

APRIL 14, 2024

There are a couple of nice new features to do with table joins (or merges as they are known in M) and query folding in Power Query in the April release of Power BI Desktop that I want to highlight. Anti Joins now fold First of all, a few months ago I wrote a post about how the built-in anti join functionality didn’t fold in Power Query. The good news is that it now does on SQL Server-related sources, so no more workarounds are needed.

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E2M

APRIL 15, 2024

Visual hierarchy plays a big role in the design and user experience of your website. The success of a website depends on its ability to guide users effortlessly from point A to point B. That’s where visual hierarchy comes in. It’s about using size, color, and layout to direct attention and make browsing intuitive. When you look at a website, your brain quickly figures out what’s important.

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Dataversity

APRIL 15, 2024

There’s a unanimous consensus that data is the lifeblood of organizations. From customer records to intellectual property, the explosion of information creates tremendous value – and equally tremendous risk. The pace of cyberattacks accelerates relentlessly, with disastrous data breaches becoming a mainstay in news headlines and the associated costs skyrocketing.

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Splash BI

APRIL 15, 2024

Wed, May 08, 2024 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (CEST) Register now Overview The Spain Oracle Users Group (SPOUG) encourages you to participate in the second edition of SPOUG Masters of Cloud, a virtual event that will be held on May 8th. This event featuring speakers of the highest level aims to bring innovative Oracle Cloud solutions at the same time as improving the specialization and training of the Oracle community in Spain so that they can become veritable masters of the Cloud.

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GoodData

APRIL 15, 2024

Explore how Longbow integrates CSV file reading for analytics. Learn about CSV's benefits, challenges, and our solutions for efficient data handling.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 16, 2024

Bloomberg Intelligence (BI) is hosting a webinar on Innovation in the Annuity Market on April 18 at 10AM EST. Please join us for a fireside chat with insurance industry experts Sheryl J. Moore , Alan Grissom and Carrie Freeburg, ASA, MAAA , as well as an economic perspective from BI economist Stuart Paul. Registration Link: [link] The post Innovation in Annuities- Higher Rates, Index Offerings Drive Record Sales appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Dataversity

APRIL 15, 2024

Knowledge graphs, while not as well-known as other data management offerings, are a proven dynamic and scalable solution for addressing enterprise data management requirements across several verticals. As a hub for data, metadata, and content, they provide a unified, consistent, and unambiguous view of data scattered across different systems. Using global knowledge as context for […] The post Knowledge Graphs 101: The Story (and Benefits) Behind the Hype appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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SCIP

APRIL 15, 2024

SCIP Insights Onboarding AI for Success Every company has valuable competitive intelligence lying unexploited within their organization. Too often, this intelligence evaporates in conversation, stays trapped in enterprise silos, is lost in Slack or email threads, or never shared at all. AI holds the promise to the change this dynamic by 1) extracting valuable intel from both employees and enterprise systems and 2) identifying patterns and anomalies from vast amounts of data in a manner and speed

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2024

Nimesh Mehta might not have millions of followers on social media, yet he still considers himself an influencer. The senior vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group, has spent years executing a technology roadmap to modernize the insurance company. More recently, his charter has expanded into helping the organization formulate business strategy and leading change management efforts to reinvent the 175-year company as a digital trailblazer in its field.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

Zinnia, an Eldridge Industries company, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of several industry-leading life insurance & annuities solutions from Ebix, Inc., including: AnnuityNet and LifeSpeed , the preferred order-entry platforms VitalSales Suite , tools for rate comparison, quotes, & reports WinFlex , a market-leading multi-carrier illustration tool The Policy Processor (TPP) , a top new business & underwriting platform SmartOffice , a CRM tool for agents, advisors, & br

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS – April 11, 2024 – Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America ( Allianz Life ) today announced $1.8 million in investments to four local nonprofits focused on increasing equitable access to economic opportunities and resources in the Twin Cities. Each organization will receive $450,000 over the course of three years, with 75 percent of funds going to nonprofits located in the Midway community in St.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

Ibexis Life & Annuity Insurance Co. has an annuity design idea: Let customers who guess wrong about the stock market ditch their annuities. The Jefferson City, Missouri-based insurer has introduced the FIA Plus product, a non-variable indexed annuity designed for sales through independent marketing organizations, or IMOs. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post Let Angry Annuity Owners Go: Ibexis appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

Seventy percent of RIAs said they expect the S&P 500 to grow by 3% or more in the next 12 months, according to their responses to a survey sponsored by a group including Security Benefit, Greenwald Research, and DPL Financial Partners. This market optimism, however, is tempered by their concerns about volatility. Click HERE to read the full story via Financial Advisor Wink’s Moore on the Market: Hmm…raising my eyebrows at this one.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget has concluded its review of Labor’s final fiduciary rule, according to a notice on the OMB website. The review was completed Wednesday. “With the completion of OMB’s review, the next step would be for DOL to announce the final rule,” the Insured Retirement Institute said Thursday in a statement. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor Wink’s Moore on the Market: “At a high level, the lawmakers wrote that the 2023 DOL rule &

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

MassMutual has come up with a new way to persuade people with life insurance to eat right, exercise and get checkups: Make their DNA do the talking. The Springfield, Massachusetts-based life insurer is expanding a program that provides eligible insureds with a chance to get a free genetic health risk assessment from a U.K. firm, Genomics. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post MassMutual to Offer Free Gene Readings to More Insureds appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

American Equity Investment Life is putting $1 billion in a new arrangement that will provide credit for midsize U.S. businesses. The West Des Moines, Iowa-based fixed annuity issuer has invested the cash in ASP Summa, a collateralized loan obligation set up by Adams Street Partners, a Chicago-based investment firm. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post Annuity Issuer Invests $1B in Midsize Firms appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

U.S. life insurers are getting a lot more of their retail product premium revenue from annuities than from life insurance these days. Individual annuities accounted for $344 billion of life insurers’ $1.5 trillion in direct written premiums in 2023, or about 24% of the total, according to new industrywide totals from A.M. Best. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post Annuities Soar as Source of Life Insurer Revenue appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

The heads of two groups that represent annuity sellers say that White House regulation reviewers showed little apparent interest in their views about the U.S. Department of Labor’s fiduciary definition effort during meetings this week. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the White House Office of Management and Budget division that analyzes the costs and benefits of regulations, scheduled a total of about 20 meetings to hear interested parties’ thoughts about the DOL effort.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

Morningstar recently put out a report scoffing at the idea that annuitization options will have much of an effect on the U.S. retirement plan market. Larry Fink, the CEO and chairman of BlackRock, disagrees. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post BlackRock CEO Sees Annuities as Retirement Plans’ Future appeared first on Wink, Inc.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

Industry trade groups are pressing the Labor Department to continue to receive public input on its fiduciary rule and not “finalize the rule now.” In a letter sent Monday to acting Labor Secretary Julie Su as well as the Office of Management and Budget, the groups — which include the Financial Services Institute and the Insured Retirement Institute — state that Labor rushed its rule through and asked Labor and OMB to “stand up for the integrity of the regulatory process and continue the

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

NEW YORK–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Equitable , a leading financial services organization and principal franchise of Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH ), today announced new findings from a survey of more than 1,000 consumers to help uncover the latest financial trends that are top of mind for Americans. Equitable’s survey revealed that three-quarters of consumers (75%) feel their money does not go as far as it did a year ago.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 15, 2024

WASHINGTON , April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — With nearly 106 million individual income-tax returns resulting in refunds in 2023, a significant number of Americans are already pondering how to use their additional funds. As the Wall Street Journal reported, this year’s average refund is a little over $3,100. If you are contemplating where to allocate this unexpected money, take a moment before embarking on your spending spree to explore innovative ways to make the most of your mone

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Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 16, 2024

Seven states are on board with guidelines for use of artificial intelligence that insurers “are expected” to follow. Adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and sent to the states in December, the AI framework is an initial regulatory effort to gain oversight over the rapidly evolving technology. Momentum for AI regulation in the insurance sector “is definitely growing,” said Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik, partner at the law firm Eversheds Sutherland.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 16, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget announced that it has concluded a review of the Department of Labor’s controversial fiduciary rule. The review is the final big hurdle before the rule is published in the Federal Register. OMB is still scheduled to meet with stakeholder groups through April 15, but the agency indicated on its website that its official review completed Wednesday.

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Wink Intel

APRIL 16, 2024

An advisor wanted for allegedly ripping off clients for $1.5 million was captured by the FBI last week after a short time on the run. William Jack Berg, 51, is charged with money laundering and several counts of wire fraud, according to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Berg sold life insurance, annuities, and similar products and also acted as a financial advisor, the indictment says.

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