Editor's Thoughts.

One of the crowd pleasers at this year’s Batseta Winter Conference was Michelle Acton’s presentation on Old Mutual’s recent two-pot survey. It was standing room only in the venue as she shared insights from the 35 000 responses received from fund members who had taken a savings pot withdrawal. Clearly, there are lessons we are still learning as two-pot becomes business as usual. In today’s episode of Industry Insights, we chat with Michelle to share these, and other, learnings with you.

I also attended a fascinating webinar yesterday, where the team from Cliff Dekker Hofmeyr shared more details on their article on gender bias in AI (Under Top Picks). One of the illustrations supporting the point was uploading a younger vs an older picture of a woman and then a man, and asking AI which version it ranks as the most attractive - the younger or the older? AI’s differing responses for different genders is surprising. (Or is it?)

Now if AI is simply going to echo our baked in biases and already thought of thoughts, is it really the innovation we think it is?

Other articles today include thoughts around bringing your investments back home (Consult by Momentum). Now it’s an interesting conundrum. If one watches the latest episode of Inside Private Markets (why haven’t you yet?), you’ll hear that SA unlisted markets present real opportunities – and many of these come with the added benefit of building our country. It leaves me thinking: as we insist millions of humans return to their countries to go build and fix there, why are we not bringing our money here to build and fix here?

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