Robo-advisors SoFi, WeLab and Syfe are now on MoneySmart. Compare their features and fees and learn about the latest discounts for opening an account now.

HONG KONG SAR- Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – [SoFi, WeLab, Syfe] 3 Major Robo-Advisors Now on MoneySmart. Many brokerages in the market offer smart investment services powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These include robo-advisory, rapid market data organisation and price movement analysis that help users build the optimal investment portfolio. MoneySmart has recently launched a Robo-Advisor comparison service that allows users to compare different robo-advisors on MoneySmart. AI robo-advisors such as SoFi, WeLab GoWealth, and Syfe have their respective unique features that enable users to invest and trade with greater ease.

Introducing Robo-Advisors

Robo-advisor is both an AI robo-advisory platform and a stock trading platform. Robo-advisors run data analysis on customers’ investment goals, risks, and other factors using precise computer algorithms and help users build the optimal investment portfolio.

Comparison of 3 Major Online AI Trading Platforms: SoFi vs WeLab vs Syfe

Online AI Trading Platform	Features	Fee
SoFi Hong Kong Brokerage Account	Diversified investment portfolio, over 13,000 stocks across 35 countries	HK$30/month
WeLab GoWealth Digital Wealth Advisory Services	Digital wealth advisory services, market conditions smart alert, no lock-up period	Subscription fee of 1.5%, minimum investment HK$100
Syfe	Hong Kong’s first globally diversified portfolio with direct indexing	0.35% – 0.65% per annum

The main advantages of Robo-Advisors

Robo-advisors operate round-the-clock and charge a lower fee than traditional investment advisory services. Their systems also automatically allocate, manage, and optimise user assets according to market conditions. This helps users save on the effort, time and money required in manually managing their portfolios. For investors seeking a reliable and simple means of managing their portfolios, robo-advisors make the ideal choice.

Visit MoneySmart’s Robo-Advisor comparison page today to find the robo advisory services available in the market!

MoneySmart Head of Commercial Marcus Chan said, “We often ask, ‘How can I increase my wealth? Where do I start?’ With advanced technology like robo-advisor, it is akin to having a professional financial advisor, and you don’t have to think about how best to start. At MoneySmart, we empower people to manage their wealth and make smarter decisions. We’re excited to launch a product category like robo-advisors and to have leading teams on board to help our users kickstart their investment journey. We welcome WeLab GoWealth, Syfe and SoFi to MoneySmart.”

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MoneySmart HK is part of the MoneySmart Group, founded in Singapore in 2009. We are a one-stop portal for comparing financial products offered by multiple institutions, such as credit cards, personal loans, insurance, investment accounts, saving accounts and mortgages. At MoneySmart, we endeavour to help our users make smarter financial management decisions. Visit https://www.moneysmart.hk/en for more information.

LONDON, UK – Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – Approaching a record-breaking 100 million views, global C-Pop star Tia Lee Yu Fen continues to attract immense interest for her animation series – “GOODBYE PRINCESS“. The fifth episode featured a shocking turn of events ahead of the hotly-anticipated finale.

The prince declared his undying love for the princess in the fourth episode. In the fifth episode “Temptation Apple” the happy prince and princess dance together in the castle. Snapping out of her happiness, the princess realises that the enchanting light that drew her into this wondrous adventure is moving further and further away. The princess chases it, leaving the prince behind, and finds a room containing a magic mirror, showing her previous life as a mermaid.

The mirror hands the princess an apple, and she takes a bite. The prince is not able to stop her, and the princess subsequently finds herself back in the ocean. The TV screen from the first episode is showing images of the prince giving an unconscious princess the kiss of life.

Accompanying the fifth instalment of Tia Lee’s “GOODBYE PRINCESS” animation series was a set of motion images and still photography, produced in collaboration with Vogue Hong Kong. It showed Tia in a Prakakaas hook and Poem skirt, looking in awe and wonder at the magical mirror.

With the finale right around the corner, what fate awaits the princess? All will be revealed in the enthralling conclusion of “GOODBYE PRINCESS“.

Official press materials:

“GOODBYE PRINCESS” Animation Episode 5:
https://youtu.be/FWHHBO3yL4I

“GOODBYE PRINCESS” Episode 5 Poster:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Claj4s2P-ih/
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=686167262876498&set=a.231904644969431 (for downloading)

“GOODBYE PRINCESS” Episode 5 Still Image:
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClfwyiVu5bC/
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=691724972320727&set=a.231904644969431 (for downloading)

“GOODBYE PRINCESS” Episode 5 Motion Image:
https://youtu.be/9Lk-amx1NUw

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About Tia Lee Yu Fen:

Tia Lee Yu Fen, born in Taipei, is an Asian global C-pop star, film and television actress, and model. In addition to her acting roles and musical career, Tia appears frequently at major fashion shows.

BEIJING, CHINA – Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – Following the winners announcement of Making Matters, China Design Challenge, the British Council has organised a series of miniature showcases in Shanghai and Manchester. Under the theme of “Fall in love with the future through circular design”, the Challenge aims to explore how the principles of a circular economy can be a catalyst for creativity, collaboration and regenerative thinking within architecture, design and fashion practice through its multi-disciplinary programme. The Challenge also recognises young creative talents by facilitating an exchange of dialogue around circular design. Launched in 2021 for Chinese university students in Mainland China and the UK, the Challenge is a part of the global initiative of Making Matters, sponsored by IM Motors and co-developed by Manchester Metropolitan University and Young Green Tech.

Circular design involves the elimination of waste and pollution at source through designs, promoting the revival of nature via recycling products and materials. The 14 selected finalists were offered knowledge-buildings activities, tutorials, and workshops with professional advice to refine and develop their ideas and proposals from the last 10 months. The robust group of finalists gathers talents from different specialties, including industrial design, engineering, business management as well as education and computer science, who come from Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts (UK) and other universities across China and beyond.

The judging panel is comprised of a group of esteemed professionals and scholars from China and the United Kingdom, including FAN Chuan, Project Manager for Learning and Design, Ellen McArthur Foundation; FENG Yi’an, Designer of Colour, Material and Perception, IM Motors; Sarah MORIARTY, Design Educator, Member of the Product Design Team, Manchester School of Art; Lucy SIEGLE, Journalist, the Guardian and Chair, the Real Circularity Coalition; and WANG Xi, Founder, VLOOP. The winners were judged based on five key criteria including social impact, communication skill, critical thinking, innovation, as well as achievement and improvement.

“We received a diverse array of project submissions for this challenge. The students’ passion and commitment are evidenced through the strong insights and detailed thoughts in their circular design projects. They have also made significant progress in refining and developing their projects in the last 10 months. We are excited to see what lies ahead for these students,” commented the judging panel.

Seven award recipients have been selected from the shortlisted projects for the Challenge, which include: two Grand Champions (individual entry and team entry), two Merit Awards for the runners up (individual entry and team entry), a Highly Commended Prize and two Commended Prizes.

The Grand Champion for Individual Entry was awarded to project “Sustainable exploration programme for the whole process of aluminium metal production” by TU Junjie from Central Academy of Fine Arts. The project aims to achieve ecological, economic and social sustainability by reusing bi-product and waste product from aluminium production.

The Grand Champion for Team Entry was awarded to project “Research on sustainable applicability of circular design on the recycle of lens thermosetting materials in optometry industry” by GAO Jie and DUAN Limin from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. The project aims at effective recycling of waste materials by customising the modular components of glasses, taking into consideration glass designs, material choices, user experience and the most fundamental aspect of vision protection.

The Merit Award for Individual Entry was awarded to “POO-BANK” by LIU Ruitong from Renmin University of China. Through recycling waste, the project converts organic compost from pet dog excrement to create a healthier and sustainable urban environment. The project was also awarded the Choice of the IM Community by IM Motors.

The Merit Award for Team Entry was awarded to “Extreme-Ride” by LI Jiaxiang, MO Wanying and SHEN Yuhong from Tsinghua University. Based on the 4R strategy – Redefine, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – the project involves the design of an electronic SUV-camping car for the “urban nomads” belonging to the Generation Z.

The Highly Commended Award was awarded to “Campus Waste Recycling Incentive Platform for Universities” by ZHANG Man from South China University of Technology while the Commended Awards were given to “Life in Wax” by LIU Ziyi, ZHANG Ting, WANG Qin and ZHANG Xiaoman from Shandong University of Finance and Economics and GAO Zixiang from the University of Glasgow; and “Be the Master of Your Own Memory” by JIN Hongyi from Tsinghua University.

The Grand Champions and Merit Award winners receive a prize of CNY 24,000 (~GBP 2,960/ USD 3,500) and CNY 12,000 (~GBP 1,480/ USD 1,750) respectively, and all award winners receive a trophy and certificate made from regenerated materials. The winning project of the Choice of the IM Community will receive a Thomas Heatherwick-designed Spun Chair as a special prize.

LIU Tao, co-CEO of IM Motors, said: “As the world faces increasing challenges brought by climate change, we are prompted to adopt new practice from a new perspective that would help create a more restorative and regenerative future for our planet. Through Making Matters, China Design Challenge, we hope to encourage young students worldwide to leverage the power of design to conserve energy, materials and reduce environmental pollution. By integrating circular economy and the concepts of innovation, cooperation and regeneration, we can ensure environmental impacts are fully taken into account when designing new products, services and systems for the future.”

Sevra DAVIS, Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion at British Council said, “Our work in the architecture, design and fashion team at the British Council is centred on a long standing and growing ambition to support emerging designers and to see sustainability and circular design embedded in the work that we do, as well as supporting that in the architecture, design, fashion and peripheral industries and communities. Young designers are crucial to this work. We all know that innovative thinking lies in those who have the ability to think systemically and through complexity in new ways. The Making Matters, China Design Challenge builds on the circular design momentum already inherent in so many young designers today, so we can see these ideas brought to the fore. I want to thank IM Motors for their support of the Making Matters, China Design Challenge as well as Manchester Metropolitan University and Young Green Tech for their co-development of the program, and a particular thanks to all the young designers who took part and who worked to develop ideas for a circular design future.”

Following the winner announcement, British Council is hosting a project showcase at IM Motors Experience Center in 1000 Trees in Shanghai that is currently on view until February 2023 with the theme of ‘Fall in love with the future through circular design’, including an extra section of recycling materials for display and experiment by REDO Design Studio. As a complementary event succeeding the campaign “IM Here” presented by IM Motors, the showcase will be relocated to URBANCROSS Gallery on Wukang Road in Shanghai in late December, with an aim to raise the awareness of circular design among the young generation and encourage more of them to join the initiative. The project showcase will be on view at Manchester Metropolitan University in early December alongside academic panel discussion on 16 December.

For further details on the Making Matters, China Design Challenge, please visit:
https://www.britishcouncil.cn/en/programmes/arts/making-matters
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About the British Council

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. We do this through our work in arts and culture, education and the English language. We work with people in over 200 countries and territories and are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.
www.britishcouncil.org

New service helps customers create data clean rooms to collaborate with their business partners and generate new insights while protecting underlying raw data

Amazon Ads, Comscore, DISH Media, Experian, Fox Corporation, LiveRamp, Omnicom Media Group’s Annalect, and TransUnion’s Neustar among customers and partners looking forward to using AWS Clean Rooms

HONG KONG SAR- Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Clean Rooms, a new analytics service that helps companies across industries easily and securely analyze and collaborate on their combined datasets—without sharing or revealing underlying data. With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can create a secure data clean room in minutes and collaborate with any other company in the AWS Cloud to generate unique insights about advertising campaigns, investment decisions, clinical research, and more. AWS Clean Rooms provides a broad set of built-in data access controls that protect sensitive data, including query controls, query output restrictions, query logging, and cryptographic computing tools.

Companies across multiple industries increasingly look to complement their data with external business partners’ data to build a complete view of their business. In the advertising industry, for example, brands, media publishers, and their partners need to collaborate using datasets that are stored across many different channels and applications to improve the relevance of their campaigns and better engage with consumers. At the same time, these companies also want to protect sensitive consumer information and reduce or eliminate the sharing of raw data. To achieve this, one company often has to provide a copy of their user-level data to their partners and rely on contractual agreements to prevent misuse. Data clean rooms can help solve this challenge by allowing multiple parties to combine and analyze their data in a protected environment, where participants are unable to see each other’s raw data. But clean rooms are hard to build, requiring complex privacy controls, specialized tools to protect each participant’s data, and months of development time customizing analytics tools. When a new collaborator is added, or a different type of analysis is needed, companies have to spend even more development time. Then, these companies repeatedly have to copy and upload their data into storage environments outside of their control, which increases costs and risks exposing sensitive information. Companies prefer to limit data movement as much as possible, usually leading to less collaboration and missed opportunities to generate new business insights.

AWS Clean Rooms is a new service that makes it easier for customers and their partners to analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets to gain new insights, without revealing underlying data. Customers can use AWS Clean Rooms to create their own clean rooms in minutes and to start analyzing their collective datasets with just a few clicks. From the AWS Management Console, customers can simply choose the partners with whom they want to collaborate, select their datasets, and configure restrictions for participants. With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can easily collaborate with companies that are already using AWS, without moving data out of their AWS environment or loading it into another platform. When customers run queries, AWS Clean Rooms reads data where it lives and applies built-in analysis rules to help them maintain control over their data. Additionally, AWS Clean Rooms provides a broad set of configurable data access controls—including query controls, query output restrictions, and query logging—that allow companies to customize restrictions on the queries run by each clean room participant. AWS Clean Rooms also includes advanced cryptographic computing tools that keep data encrypted, even as queries are processed, to comply with stringent data-handling policies.

“Customers tell us they want to collaborate more safely and securely with their partners in areas like advertising, media, financial services, and life sciences. However, the data they need to do this is fragmented across data stores and applications belonging to different partners,” said Dilip Kumar, vice president of AWS Applications. “AWS Clean Rooms helps customers and their partners to better analyze and collaborate on their data on AWS. With the launch of AWS Clean Rooms, we are making it easier, simpler, and more secure for multiple companies to share and analyze combined datasets to generate new insights that they could not do on their own. Using AWS Clean Rooms, customers can collaborate on a range of tasks, such as more effectively generating advertising campaign insights and analyzing investment data while improving data security.”

In the coming months, AWS will also introduce new identity resolution capabilities to help businesses match and link customer records stored across disparate channels without the need to build and maintain complex workflows. Customers will have access to flexible, preconfigured identity resolution workflows that use rule-based techniques and machine learning models to help accurately link consumer interactions across applications into a unique user ID. With identity resolution capabilities, customers can create a unified view of their interactions with consumers. For example, a customer working on an advertising campaign could incorporate recent events (e.g., ad clicks, cart abandonment, and purchases) into advertising and marketing applications (e.g., ad buying platforms, loyalty programs, and ecommerce systems) to create better, more relevant consumer experiences. Customers who want to collaborate with other partners in a clean room can use automated identity resolution workflows that identify common user IDs across datasets and help them more easily join data together.

AWS Clean Rooms is available as a standalone offering and as part of AWS for Advertising and Marketing, a comprehensive set of solutions for advertising agencies, advertising technology companies, brands, and media publishers to accelerate and improve advertising and marketing campaign effectiveness. AWS for Advertising and Marketing includes solutions for privacy-enhanced data collaboration, advertising intelligence and measurement, audience and customer data management, real-time advertising, and customer experience. For more information on AWS for Advertising and Marketing, visit aws.com/advertising-marketing.

Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) is a secure, privacy-safe clean room application from Amazon Ads that supports thousands of marketers with custom analytics and cross-channel analysis. Builders can utilize AMC APIs to create their own offerings, while analysts can interact with a user interface available through the Amazon Ad Console. “Providing marketers with greater control over their own signals, while being able to analyze them in conjunction with signals from Amazon Ads, is crucial in today’s marketing landscape,” said Paula Despins, vice president of Ads Measurement at Amazon Ads. “By migrating AMC’s compute infrastructure to AWS Clean Rooms under the hood, marketers can use their own signals in AMC without moving data out of their AWS environment. This simplifies how marketers can manage their signals and enables AMC teams to focus on building new capabilities for brands.”

Comscore is a measurement and analytics company that brings trust and transparency to media. “As advertisers and marketers adapt to deliver relevant campaigns leveraging their combined datasets while protecting consumer data, Comscore’s Media Metrix suite, powered by Unified Digital Measurement 2.0, and Campaign Ratings services, will continue to support critical measurement and planning needs with services like AWS Clean Rooms,” said Brian Pugh, chief information officer at Comscore. “AWS Clean Rooms will enable new methods of collaboration among media owners, brands, or agency customers through customized data access controls, managed and set by each data owner, without needing to share underlying data.”

DISH Media provides advertisers with intelligent solutions to efficiently maximize exposure to desired audiences across DISH TV and SLING TV. “At DISH Media, we empower brands and agencies to run their own analysis of prior campaigns to allow for flexibility, visibility, and ease in optimizing future campaigns to reach DISH Media’s 31 million consumers,” said Kemal Bokhari, head of Data, Measurement, and Analytics at DISH Media. “We believe advertisers will benefit from the ease-of-use and comprehensive data access controls of AWS Clean Rooms for the measurement and optimization of campaigns.”

Fox Corporation is a leading producer and distributor of ad-supported content through its sports, news, and entertainment brands. “It can be challenging for our advertising clients to determine how to best leverage our deep, differentiated set of data sources to optimize their media spend across our combined portfolio of entertainment, sports, and news brands, which reach hundreds of millions of monthly viewers,” said Lindsay Silver, senior vice president of Data and Commercial Technology at Fox Corporation. “AWS Clean Rooms will enable data collaborations easily and securely in the AWS Cloud, which will help our advertising clients unlock new insights across every Fox brand and screen while protecting consumer data.”

AWS Clean Rooms will be available in early 2023 in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and Europe (Stockholm).

To learn more, visit aws.amazon.com/clean-rooms.Hashtag: #AWS

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About Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.