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Guidewire Software tops Street 2Q forecasts
March 2, 2017
FOSTER CITY, Calif. (AP) The provider of software to the insurance industry posted revenue of $115.6 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. .
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $102 million to $106 million for the fiscal third quarter. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $111.2 million.
Guidewire Software expects full-year earnings in the range of 67 cents to 74 cents per share, with revenue ranging from $491 million to $499 million.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...ftware-tops-street-2q-213040004.html
Almost half the survey respondents (49 per cent) expected to make an acquisition to acquire digital technologies in the next three years, and nearly all respondents (94 per cent) thought distribution is where digital technologies will make the greatest impact in the next five years.
http://rdt.co.uk/...ternative-to-ma-for-businesses-seeking-insurtech/
http://newsden.net/analysts-price-targets/...-analyst-coverage/544551
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Partner with InsurTech Innovators to Secure Customer Wallet-Share from Disruptors
Today we wanted to share the following blog post that was originally posted by Actua company Bolt Solutions. This post takes a look at how traditional P&C insurance carriers can partner with InsurTech Innovators to gain competitive advantage:
http://www.actua.com/...tors-secure-customer-wallet-share-disruptors/
14% increase in premiums
12% increase in customer retention
5% increase in market share
24% increase in revenue over 5 years
By Editorial Staff Thu, Jun 02, 2016
“We’ve been watching assets migrate to the mutual fund complexes and away from our broker dealer. We wanted to create a product to help capture those accounts,” Voya's Andre Robinson told RIJ.
To serve small accounts more cost-efficiently, Voya Financial Advisors is partnering with FolioDynamix, which markets a white-label unified wealth management platform.
The new service, part of Voya Financial Advisors, will be called Voya Wealth Portfolios. As Voya transitions small-balance clients from commission-based accounts to fee-based accounts, the company will be able to offer them an automated unified managed account option.
"We designed a solution that allows us to move commission-based accounts into advisory accounts with comparable funds,” said Andre Robinson, head of advisory services at Voya Financial Advisors, in a release. According to Voya, its advisory business grew 30% in 2015.
http://retirementincomejournal.com/issue/...es-white-label-technology
Posted by Wayne Landers on Mar 10th, 201
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Actua Corp (NDAQ:ACTA) had its price objective boosted by analysts at Barrington Research from $16.00 to $17.00 in a research note issued to investors on Friday. The firm presently has an “outperform” rating on the stock.
https://sportsperspectives.com/2017/03/10/...rrington-research-2.html
Outsourced investments are one of the fastest-growing categories in the financial advisory world. Perched between the asset custodian and the financial advisor, these (mostly) turnkey asset management programs can handle all or a portion of their investing, technology and fiduciary duties.
Advocates of using these TAMPs point to how it's better for the advisor because it frees up more time to spend with clients and prospects. It's also better for clients because the duties are being handled by specialized professionals who benefit from economies of scale.
Skeptics say that it adds a layer of cost and takes away an element of control from the advisors in executing according to a client's financial plan.
http://riabiz.com/section/tamps
Service Now – this is one of the fastest growing platforms in the world and there are many that need a stronger cloud business along with others that need to protect their territory.
Potential buyers: Defensive (Salesforce), Offensive (Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, HP)
Estimated price: 15 billion USD.
ServiceNow's outlook was strong. The company projected first quarter revenue between $406 million to $411 million, up 33 percent to 34 percent. For 2017, ServiceNow projected revenue between $1.82 billion to $1.85 billion.
PEGA Systems – if there is one company in the world that can challenge Salesforce and Microsoft, it’s PEGA. So the only question is if defence or offense will win.
Potential buyers: Defensive (Salesforce, Microsoft), Offensive (Oracle, SAP, IBM, HP)
Estimated price: 8 billion USD.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/...anies-could-acquired-next-jiri-kram
2017 Guidance: As of February 23, 2017, Pegasystems is providing revenue and EPS guidance for the full year 2017 as follows:
Full Year 2017 Revenue: GAAP and non-GAAP revenue for the full year 2017 is projected to be approximately $860 million.
https://www.pega.com/about/news/press-releases/...-and-full-year-2016
Tableau – this will be either an offensive or a defensive play. It can also be consolidated by private equity firms like what happened with Qlik or informatica.
Potential buyers: Defensive (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM), Offensive (Salesforce) Estimated price: 6 billion USD.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/...anies-could-acquired-next-jiri-kram
For the full year 2016, Tableau forecasts adjusted earnings per share of 23 cents to 30 cents on revenue of $801 million to $811 million. Wall Street sees adjusted earnings of 30 cents per share on revenue of $814 million for the year
http://investors.tableau.com/investor-news/...al-Results/default.aspx
March 29, 2017
P&C insurers are starting the year strong with policy holder surplus hitting a record value of $688.3 billion,[i] but a number of factors, including a soft growth market and a low-yield investment environment, are pushing insurers to cut costs.
Lacking the technological sophistication of many other industries, insurance is still largely a manual business, but McKinsey estimates that as much as 40% of an insurer’s operational costs are tied up in the top 20 to 30 insurance processes, a number that could be reduced by half through digitization.[ii] Digitization helps insurers in areas of growth as well, enabling them to attract and retain more customers with expanded channels of engagement and greater product selection.
Leading insurers have found that by adopting a digital distribution platform they can meet consumer demands for digital engagement and product choice while reducing costs, setting them up for stronger growth in a challenging market.
http://blog.boltinc.com/...g/digital-reduces-costs-accelerates-growth
The appearance of legions of insurtech firms across the world has spurred big insurers to invest heavily in digital technology.
Many well-established insurance companies are concerned that these tech-savvy newcomers will win over their customers, erode their profit margins and dominate new lucrative markets. Such fears are not without substance. However, the biggest impact of insurtech firms on the insurance industry might not be increasingly fierce competition. Instead, it could well be greater co-operation.
http://insuranceblog.accenture.com/...-win-the-hearts-of-big-insurers
- continuously creating compelling, differentiated cloud-based offerings and services through investment in research and development;
- driving efficient long-term growth in recurring revenue through investment in lead generation, marketing and sales;
- identifying, structuring and executing accretive acquisitions that accelerate strategic plans, increase revenue growth and, over time, improve margins;
- investing in and cultivating deep, domain-expert management teams; and
- implementing strategies to obtain operational leverage and increased profitability while maintaining revenue growth, particularly as a company scales.
We believe that, through those and other measures, we are developing a set of leading businesses that possess unique assets which are hard to replicate and which provide competitive differentiation in the sizable vertical markets in which they operate. We believe further that our vertical cloud business model focus, which drives the compelling value proposition of our businesses, positions us well to generate sustained, meaningful long-term returns for our stockholders through, among other things:
- revenue visibility and predictability (and lower revenue volatility than traditional software companies);
- strong gross margins;
- disciplined customer acquisition and attractive lifetime customer values, which allow for efficient growth through investment in sales and marketing;
- economies of scale inherent in multi-tenancy software architecture, which allow a focus on innovation; and
- ultimately, long-term profitability and positive operating cash flow.
Subsidiaries of Actua Corporation
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Name Jurisdiction of Incorporation
Actua USA Corporation Delaware
Actua Holdings, Inc. Delaware
Actua Relay Holdings, Inc. Delaware
2008 Actua, LP Delaware
2009 Actua, LP Delaware
Anthem Ventures Annex Fund, LP Delaware
Anthem Ventures Fund, LP Delaware
Anthem Venture Investors, LLC Delaware
BOLT Solutions, Inc. Delaware
BOLT Finance, LLC Connecticut
Business Owners Liability Team, LLC Delaware
Insequor Israel, Ltd. Israel
Superior Access Insurance Services, Inc. California
Folio Dynamics Holdings, Inc. Delaware
Folio Dynamics, Inc. Delaware
M3Fn, LLC Delaware
FDX Advisors, Inc. California
AP Institutional Advisors, LLC Indiana
InstaMed Holdings, Inc. Delaware
InstaMed Communications, LLC Pennsylvania
VelocityEHS Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a MSDSonline Holdings, Inc.) Delaware
Knowledge Management Innovations, Ltd. Ontario
MSDSonline, Inc. Delaware
Parchment, Inc. Delaware
QC Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a WhiteFence, Inc.) Delaware
Symbio S.A. Luxembourg
Unless otherwise provided, each of the subsidiaries named above does business under the same name.
Bolt offers a cloud-based platform that, through its unique product and technology connectivity, is changing the way insurance is sold. The platform provides:
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- large commercial and personal property and casualty insurance carrier-agencies with a means to enable all of their captive agents to meet the needs of their customers by giving them instant access to a wide range of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products from a variety of other prominent carriers;
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- independent commercial and personal property and casualty insurance agents with a means to meet the needs of their customers by giving them instant access to a wide range of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products from a variety of prominent carriers;
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- non-traditional sellers of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products with a means to meet the needs of their customers by giving them instant access to a cloud-based distribution network and a wide range of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products from a variety of prominent carriers; and
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- commercial and personal property and casualty insurance carriers with a variety of additional distribution channels that foster a richer flow of business across their commercial and personal property and casualty insurance product lines.
Bolt is able to provide its platform-subscriber customers and partners, which include large insurance carrier-agencies, independent insurance agents and other insurance-based organizations, with access to a wide array of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products through its agency appointments from various prominent insurance carriers. Any loss by Bolt of one or more of these agency appointments or one or more of its large platform customers would have a negative impact on Bolt’s business, financial results and condition. Bolt’s platform customers pay both subscription and transaction-based fees (commissions) for use of its platform; the insurance carriers whose products are sold on the platform pay Bolt on a commissions basis for products sold. Bolt sells the periodic (usually multi-year) platform subscriptions to its customers and establishes and manages its carrier agency relationships directly through its internal sales team. In addition to the revenue Bolt derives from providing access to its platform, Bolt also operates as an independent insurance agency and sells commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products directly to consumers online through its platform; those sales represent a relatively small percentage of Bolt’s business.
The insurance intermediary business is highly competitive, and numerous firms, some of which have substantially greater financial and other resources, name recognition and market presence than Bolt, actively compete with Bolt for customers and insurance markets. Competition in the insurance business is largely based on innovation, quality of service and price. A number of insurance companies directly sell insurance, primarily to individuals, and do not pay commissions to third-party agents and brokers. In addition, the cloud has increasingly become a source for the direct placement of personal business lines. We believe that Bolt’s unique platform and the product and technology connectivity that it offers allows Bolt to compete in the insurance market. In 2016 , 2015 and 2014, Bolt spent approximately $ 3.4 million , $4.4 million and $3.8 million, respectively, on research and development activities.
As of December 31, 2016 , Bolt had 186 employees, all of which are full-time employees.
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Da hatte ich schon ein wenig mehr erwartet.
FolioDynamix offers wealth management service providers and financial advisors a comprehensive, secure, cloud-based wealth management technology platform and advisory solutions for managing the full wealth management lifecycle across all types of investment programs. FolioDynamix provides its customers with leading-edge technology to attract and retain the best advisors, enable more effective business process management, accelerate client acquisition and gain visibility across all assets under management ("AUM").
FolioDynamix’s customers include a variety of financial services organizations, such as brokerage firms, banks (trust and retail), large registered investment advisors ("RIAs"), and RIA networks and other fee-based managed account providers. FolioDynamix's customers access specified bundles of platform applications through the cloud on a periodic (usually multi-year) subscription basis. FolioDynamix sells the periodic subscriptions directly to its customers through its internal sales team. FolioDynamix’s comprehensive, integrated platform enables highly sophisticated management of all aspects of a financial services organization’s wealth management process, including:
- proposal generation and investment policy statement management;
- client acquisition and onboarding;
- investment model management;
- portfolio rebalancing;
- trading and trade order management;
- performance management and reporting; and
- portfolio accounting.
FolioDynamix complements its innovative wealth management platform and applications with institutional-quality research, content and consulting expertise through its subsidiary, FDx Advisors, Inc. ("FDx Advisors"). FDx Advisors is an RIA firm that is independently available to help wealth management firms with due diligence and discretionary investment solutions that can be fully integrated with the FolioDynamix technology platform. The company charges its customers, based on a specified percentage of AUM for these advisory services.
FolioDynamix’s five largest customers in terms of revenue generation represented approximately 54% of its revenue in 2016 . Although a loss of one or more of these customers (most of which have been signed to contracts through at least 2017) would have a negative impact on FolioDynamix’s financial results and condition, FolioDynamix does not have any customer the loss of which would have a materially adverse financial impact on our vertical cloud businesses as a whole.
The market for wealth management software and advisory services is fragmented, competitive and rapidly changing. When selling its software to large financial services organizations, FolioDynamix faces competition from software companies who provide end-to-end, cloud-based solutions and an even larger number of software companies that offer individual point solutions; some of these companies may have better name recognition and financial and other resources than FolioDynamix. To a lesser degree, the company competes with in-house solutions that its current and prospective clients may develop. We believe that FolioDynamix’s sophisticated, highly-scalable, comprehensive cloud-based technology platform, along with its deep wealth management domain knowledge and processes, particularly in the areas of research and regulatory compliance, provide it with a strong position in the wealth management software and advisory services market. In October 2016, the company further bolstered its turnkey asset management program ("TAMP") offering through its acquisition of certain assets of SAS Capital Management, LLC ("SAS"). See Note 4 " Consolidated Businesses ," to our Consolidated Financial Statements for more information. In 2016 , 2015 and 2014 FolioDynamix spent approximately $ 10.5 million , $8.8 million and $0.6 million (which represents the amount of expense recognized in 2014 relating to the period from acquisition date to the end of the year), respectively, on research and development activities.
As of December 31, 2016 , FolioDynamix had 156 employees, of which 3 are part-time employees.
http://icge.ir.edgar-online.com/...p;filename=ACTUA_CORP_10K_20170331
Im Gegensatz zu Bolt bin ich hier mit den Investitionen in 2016 und 2015 zufrieden, sodass die Umsatzstagnation in 2016 uberwunden werden dürfte.
VelocityEHS is a platform that features a robust set of cloud-based EH&S tools. These tools allow customers to gain visibility into, and control risk at, their companies in the areas of incident management, audit and inspection training, compliance management, risk analysis, ergonomics, greenhouse gas reporting and sustainability metrics and reporting.
VelocityEHS’s platform helps businesses create safer work environments by identifying, managing and reducing potential workplace and environmental hazards that save time, lower costs and reduce the risk and liability associated with meeting compliance (particularly U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA")) requirements.
VelocityEHS’s customers, which include large and mid-market North American businesses in a wide variety of industries (including healthcare, manufacturing, education, construction, hospitality and technology, among many others), access the company’s applications through the cloud on a subscription basis (usually multi-year); VelocityEHS sells the subscriptions directly to its customers through its internal sales team.
VelocityEHS’s principal offerings are currently chemical management applications. These cloud-based applications provide customers with the ability to track, manage and report on the hazardous chemicals contained in their workplaces, with the HQ RegXR application containing additional regulatory reporting functionality. Specifically, the applications provide businesses with:
- 24/7 access to the industry’s leading database of chemical safety data sheets, which ensures that their safety data sheet libraries are complete, up-to-date and OSHA-compliant;
- user-friendly tools that enable compliance with a variety of hazard communication requirements, such as chemical labeling, safe chemical handling and more (with the HQ RegXR Account application featuring a sophisticated regulatory cross-referencing engine);
- robust chemical management tools, including chemical mapping features, which significantly increase control over the location, status and risks associated with the chemicals at their facilities;
- mobile-enabled functionality and chemical inventory scanning technology, which allow on-the-spot access to chemical inventory information via mobile devices; and
- quick return on investment and low cost of ownership, as they eliminate time-consuming, manual administrative tasks.
VelocityEHS offers a number of customer services to support its HQ Account and HQ RegXR Account applications, such as customer training, safety data sheet authoring and compiling/indexing of customers’ online safety data sheet libraries; those services are sold to customers on a project fee basis.
VelocityEHS has around 12,600 customers, none of which individually account for a material portion of the company’s annual revenues. The market for EH&S software is fragmented and competitive. When selling its applications and services to large organizations, VelocityEHS faces competition from both large horizontal/multi-industry software companies that offer EH&S modules and smaller software companies focused solely on EH&S markets; some of these software companies provide cloud-based software solutions, while others offer only traditional, on-premise software solutions. In the large enterprise EH&S market, VelocityEHS often competes with incumbent vendors, many of which have more name recognition and financial and other resources than VelocityEHS. In the mid-market, VelocityEHS competes sometimes with smaller software companies but more often with home-grown (often manual/off-line) solutions that current and prospective customers may develop. We believe that VelocityEHS’s unparalleled proprietary database, which contains over 11 million safety data sheets, along with its cloud-based, EH&S-focused technology, its sales and marketing expertise and its deep EH&S and regulatory domain knowledge, provides VelocityEHS with a strong competitive position relative to both large and small companies offering competing EH&S software solutions. In 2016 , 2015 and 2014, VelocityEHS spent approximately $ 7.8 million , $5.8 million and $3.6 million, respectively, on research and development initiatives.
As of December 31, 2016 , VelocityEHS had 375 employees, of which six are part-time employees.
http://icge.ir.edgar-online.com/...p;filename=ACTUA_CORP_10K_20170331