15 classic movies you can stream on the new Netflix competitor for film fans

If you’ve been waiting patiently for hard-to-find movies from Stanley Kubrick and Akira Kurosawa to finally be available to stream, wait no more — FilmStruck is here!

The new streaming service developed and managed by the cinephiles at Turner Classic Movies, FilmStruck will provide hundreds of classic Hollywood, indie, foreign, and cult hits on a subscription basis. Available titles include Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush,” Kurosawa’s “Rashomon,” Kubrick’s “The Killing,” and Robert Altman’s “The Player.” 

It will also provide the largest streaming selection of Criterion Collection titles (and the company’s incredible special features). 

FilmStruck just went live Tuesday. Prices vary: $6.99 per month for FilmStruck; $10.99 per month for FilmStruck and Criterion Channel; $99 per year for the annual subscription to FilmStruck and Criterion Channel.

Here are 15 classic titles that you can stream right now (with the FilmStruck/Criterion Channel package):

1. “The 400 Blows” (1959)

Director François Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical look at his childhood in Paris is a pillar of the French New Wave, which still inspires filmmakers to this day. In it, then-unknown 14-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud plays Antoine Doinel, a misfit running around Paris whose troublemaking often goes unpunished.

2. “Blood Simple” (1984)

The directorial debut of the Coen brothers (“The Big Lebowski,” “No Country for Old Men”) is a gritty neo-noir that showcases many of the hallmarks the duo would master in their movies to come. From the camerawork to the writing, there’s a lot to love about this movie.

3. “Breathless” (1960)

A year after the release of “The 400 Blows,” Jean-Luc Godard would add to the French New Wave with his classic debut. Following a thief who is wanted by the police and the American girl he tries to run away to Italy with, the movie’s use of dramatic jump cuts was revolutionary for the 1960s.

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Bernstein on ‘robo advisors’: ‘We think lots of investors are going to do this’

Analysts at asset manager Bernstein are bullish on the prospects of so-called robo advisors — digital wealth managers that offer investment strategies on the cheap.

In a note sent to clients on Monday, analyst Inigo Fraser-Jenkins and his team wrote: “We think there is a strong case to be made that assets run by such strategies will increase significantly. They are easy to use, transparent and the robo label will probably act as a good marketing tool.”

Bernstein predicts that established players such as BlackRock or Fidelity could come to dominate the market and may even face competition from tech giants like Google or Facebook.

“Robo advisors” are one of the hottest areas of financial technology — fintech — in 2016. Broadly, they are online investment platforms that “match a stated risk tolerance of investors with an asset allocation based on asset class returns, variances, and covariances,” Bernstein writes. 

You take a quiz online that puts you in one of several risk buckets. Your money is then invested based on pre-determined allocation for your risk band. If the performance starts to go off track, many “robo advisors” will then also automatically adjust investments to try and recover it.

Examples of leading “robo advisors” are Wealthfront and Betterment in the US and Nutmeg, MoneyFarm, and Wealthify in the UK. Bernstein based its conclusions on the popularity of “robo advisors” by opening accounts with Nutmeg and MoneyFarm.

“They seem pretty good!” Bernstein reports. “The accounts are easy to open, and the link from risk preferences to asset allocation is fairly intuitive. We think lots of investors are going to do this.”

Berinstein’s note is titled: “Robo advisors’ threat to fund managers – R2-D2 or Terminator?,” and the bank concludes: “As they currently stand, they are more R2-D2 given they currently account for only a very small portion of invested assets.”

The largest “robo advisors” in the US had total assets under management of $60 billion in September 2016, Bernstein says. For comparison, BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, has $5.1 trillion under management.

While Fraser-Jenkins and his team don’t think “robos” pose a threat to traditional asset managers at the moment, if the “robo advice” market grows at the rate that Bernstein expects “robo” players could end up with a significant proportion of retail money and: “At that point they may come to resemble something more akin to Terminator,” for active fund managers, who charge a higher fee for personally picking stocks, bonds, and other assets they think will outperform the wider market.

Bernstein adds: “Whether the current cohort of robo advisers will be the ones that ultimately benefit or whether larger platforms take over the area remains to be seen.”

The analyst points to the launch of “robo advisors” by established players such as Deutsche Bank and UBS, as well as acquisitions by players such as BlackRock and Invesco. (Allianz recently took a stake in MoneyFarm, another example of collaboration.)

Bernstein says: “The issue here is we believe that barriers to entry of the actual robo part of the asset allocation process are very low, the hard part is getting the clients.” Those market dynamics would seem to favour a “robo advisor” launched or backed by an established player.

Fraser-Jenkins says such an established player may not even come from the finance sector. He writes:

“Tech companies are another possibility in theory. Both Google and Facebook have in the past commissioned studies on potential entry into the asset management industry. Meanwhile Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu are already successfully distributing money market funds to Chinese retail investors. Tech companies could capitalize on the high trust that customers have in their brands and their expertise in sophisticated algorithms. 

“The fear of tech companies entering asset management has often been brought up in client meetings. Such a move (so far it has only happened on any meaningful scale in China) would likely be very disruptive indeed. Having said that, there are reasons why such companies might not want to get involved at this stage to do with reputation and falling margins in the industry. If they did choose to get involved then presumably robo would be a natural entry point.”

Bernstein says the rise of “robo advisors” is part of the “Uberisation” of finance, although the wealth manager says “robo advisors” themselves are not particularly technologically sophisticated.

“Their name may imply some new technological break-through, but far from it,” says Bernstein. “Their growth owes more to regulation in creating an “advice gap” in some markets and a focus on lower and more transparent fees.”

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A $2.4 billion twisting Chinese tower was just named the most beautiful skyscraper in the world

Now Facebook plans to eat the $500 billion telecom equipment market (FB)

After taking on the multibillion-dollar data center equipment industry, Facebook has now set its sights on the $500 billion telecom equipment market, too.

On Tuesday it revealed several details of its plans.

This includes a new computer network product invented at Facebook which it will freely share with the world, as well as a plan to design a new open source cellular wireless network. 

Specifically, Facebook announced on Tuesday a piece of network equipment known as an optical switch that it named Voyager. (In geek speak, this is the first "white box" transponder and routing device for Open Packet DWDM optical networks.)

Optical networks are very-high-speed networks that transfer data using light pulses, rather than conventional copper wires. A "white box" is a generic piece of computer equipment that costs far less than the big brand names.

In addition to the Voyager device, Facebook is also giving away as an open source project the files for a project called OpenCellular. The goal of that is to create a new open wireless ecosystem, Facebook says.

As Facebook's Jay Parikh, head of infrastructure and engineering at Facebook, wrote in his blog post:

"Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected whether developing technology that can help connect the unconnected or creating more immersive experiences that require better connections. With video and VR consumption on the rise, larger, better networks are needed. This is an incredibly large challenge, and in the coming years we'll all need to work together to understand the specific connectivity challenges in each market and develop new technologies and processes to address those challenges."

This is all part of Facebook's new Telecom Infra Project (TIP), announced in February and created in the image of its uber successful Open Compute Project project. OCP creates "open source hardware" for the data center, where engineers from differing companies work together to freely design the gear they want and need.

OCP was born five years ago and has obtained a "cult like" following in its world that is now inspiring other internet companies, like LinkedIn, to design all of their own networks and data center equipment, too.

As we previously reported, when Apple refused to join OCP last year, its entire network team quit Apple the same week. (Apple later did join OCP.)

That ex-Apple team launched a startup, called SnapRoute, led Jason Forrester, that offers open source network software based on their work at Apple.

That SnapRoute software is also powering this new Facebook Voyager switch. (SnapRoute also just ousted Hewlett Packard Enterprise from leading a networking software project it founded, too.)

Through OCP, Facebook has invented its own servers, storage drives, data center racks and network switches and inspired a booming eco-system of other software, gear and startups around it, particularly the computer network stuff, a market currently dominated by Cisco.

So now, Facebook has turned its attention on disrupting the telecom equipment market and the vendors that dominate it like Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Juniper Networks and others.

On top of that, Facebook has launched a a telecom accelerator in Seoul, a city known for its advanced telecommunications, in conjunction with SK Telecom. The idea is to encourage people to launch telecom tech startups. Facebook says this is the first such accelerator but not the last.

Given the run-away success of OCP, TIP has already attracted a lot of attention.

Facebook is holding its first industry conference for TIP members on Tuesday where it announced these new devices. A bunch of new members have joined, too, including Bell Canada, du (EITC), NBN, Telia, Telstra, Accenture, Canonical, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others.

More than 300 companies are already part of TIP, Facebook says. 

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11 home batteries that rival Tesla's Powerwall 2.0 (tsla)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is looking to disrupt renewable energy.

Musk unveiled the new version of its at-home battery, Powerwall 2.0, on Friday night. The battery comes with technical and design improvements from its predecessor, but it also speaks to Tesla's larger vision for energy. Musk wants to bring solar installation and battery installation, two processes that inherently rely on each other, together as one simple, integrated process.

Part of that vision involves Tesla merging with SolarCity, a controversial deal worth $2.6 billion, which shareholders will vote on November 17.

At-home batteries can store electricity generated by solar panels and draw electricity from the utility grid when rates are low to store for later use. They also provide homeowners with backup power in the event of an outage.

But Tesla isn't the only company offering an at-home battery solution.

Here's a closer look at Tesla's Powerwall 2.0 and its competition. 

1. Tesla's Powerwall 2.0 is a 269-pound lithium ion battery that you can mount on your wall. Panasonic makes the cells for the battery, while Tesla builds the battery module and pack. The whole thing costs $5,500, including the inverter, and stores 13.5 kWh of energy.

For reference, the average person uses 30 kWh of power a day.

The Powerwall is modular, so you can link up to nine batteries side-by-side to store more energy. Tesla estimates it will cost $1,000 to install the Powerwall, with installations beginning January 2017.

2. The LG Chem RESU battery is probably Tesla's closest competitor in the space. LG Chem announced just last week it would bring its battery option to the US through a partnership with rooftop solar company Sunrun. That would make the RESU available to Sunrun customers and its products distribution arm — a similar strategy to making the Powerwall available to SolarCity customers.

You can read more about LG Chem's Sunrun partnership here.

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Hybrid robo-advisors will manage 10% of all investable assets by 2025

After the strong growth of the robo-advisory approach in recent years, promoted by numerous start-ups worldwide as well as sizeable number of early adopting wealth managers, a new ‘sub-species’ has emerged: the hybrid robo/personal contact service, which adds a substantial software component to human interaction in the client advisory process.

This is a key finding of MyPrivateBanking's latest report "Hybrid Robos: how combining human and automated wealth advice delivers superior results and gains market share".

In MyPrivateBanking's view, hybrid robo-advisory strategies represent a paradigm shift in the pace and path of change in the wealth management industry. MyPrivateBanking estimates that hybrid robo services will by 2020 grow to a size of USD 3,700 billion assets worldwide; by 2025 the total market size will further increase to USD 16,300 billion. This number constitutes just over 10% of the total investable wealth in 2025.

By comparison,“pure” robo-advisors (completely automated without personal service added on) will have a market share of 1.6% of the total global wealth at that stage. The report includes a projection for the market size and growth globally of Hybrid Robo-Advisor and pure play robo-advisor, including a breakdown between North America and the rest of the world, and a split by the retail and affluent wealth and the HNWI/UHNWI segments.

Hybrid robo solutions are a dynamic and also unstable new phase in the wealth management industry’s transformation. MyPrivateBanking expects 2016 to be a year of significant developments – several major players have announced that they will reveal their hybrid offerings in the course of the year and many more wealth managers are currently working through the issues of hybrid robo adoption. The institutional players entering the robo-advisors markets and their offerings are analyzed in detail in the report.

Hybrid Solutions will impact many financial services sectors

The drivers for hybrid robo innovation will come from several different sources within the global financial industry. For a start there is is the inspiration derived from the original robo-advisor services. To this must be added the new opportunities that have arisen following the launch of a substantial range of new B2B technology providers, some focused only on the banking and wealth management industries and others with a broader scope.

The next 12 to 18 months will provide numerous demonstrations of the impact of the new (white label) technology providers and robo/conventional partnering on wealth management. In particular, as this report’s case studies show, the resulting hybrid wealth management solutions will spring up in a number of different parts of the global finance industry. Furthermore, with the help of robo technology, MyPrivateBanking expects to see a significant increase in quasi-wealth management services from sections of the industry that have been considered as distinct from wealth management, such as pension providers, fund managers and retail banks.

The robo model of investment portfolio management will be good enough in the eyes of a larger proportion of investors than the wealth management industry itself yet seems ready to recognize. Moreover, hybrid robo-advisory services will increase the efficiency of advisors, in terms of numbers of clients served per professional, and the increasing numbers of hybrid solutions will also have a significant downwards effect on the client charges the market will bear.

Wealth managers should implement robo advisors solution fast, but thoughtful

The report highlights 20 different recommendations for consideration by wealth managers in weighing up hybrid robo opportunities, among them:

• Wealth Managers should be wary of assuming that one or more robo-advisory elements can be just ‘added on’ to an existing service.
• Especially in the retail and affluent segments, tie-ups with non-financial retail services of various kinds will be of increasing importance for the success of robo-advisory client recruitment.
• For most wealth managers the path to a hybrid solution will have several stages; this is fine but clients’ awareness of the capabilities of automation will be increasing rapidly in the next few years.
• In the higher wealth segments, wealth managers who automate ‘behind the scenes’ processes will be best placed to introduce client facing robo elements when they’ve established their client-base is ready. 

This rigorous and detailed report tells you all you need to know for assessing this new stage in the evolution of robo-advisors, the strengths and weaknesses and lessons to be learned from of a selection of existing hybrid robo-advisor innovators and the implications for conventional wealth managers. This report makes a deep analysis of what constitutes ‘hybrid robo’ and draws out the important characteristics of this developing field. This is complemented by the MyPrivateBanking’s market projections exercise and together both give readers a clear idea of the scale of change that is underway.

In addition, in order to illustrate different types of hybrid robo solutions, five case studies of hybrid robo innovators are included that provide insights into different ‘pathways’ to hybrid solutions. The report’s recommendations chapter provides five outline strategic goals for hybrid solutions together with a larger number of detailed considerations for wealth managers preparing to implement a hybrid strategy.

For the report, the MyPrivateBanking analyst team covering the robo-advisor development from its beginnings (see previous reports here) has further researched the leading trends (and providers) and engaged in discussions with service and technology providers as well as industry experts and wealth managers.

The report gives wealth managers, robo-advisors, banks, IT-vendors and consultants answers to the following questions:

• What constitutes a ‘hybrid robo’ and which are the most important characteristics? What are the different ‘pathways’ to hybrid solutions?

• What is the status of the robo-advisor market (full robo-advisors and hybrid robo-advisors) and how will it develop over the next 10 years?

• How will the growth of the Hybrid robo-advisor be differentiated by the retail and affluent wealth segments and the HNWI/UHNWI segments.
  

• What are the learning points for wealth management from the hybrid solutions of five different institutions?“

• Which features and functions should hybrid robo-advisor solutions have to satisfy the needs of clients? 

• What are the implications of the hybrid robo-advisor model to traditional wealth managers? How can they counter the threats? How can they benefit?

Main Content

• Institutional players entering the robo-advisors markets and analysis of their offerings

• Hybrid Robo-Advisor and pure play robo-advisor market size and growth globally, including a breakdown between North America and the rest of the world

• Hybrid Robo-Advisor market size and growth split between the retail and affluent wealth segments and the HNWI/UHNWI segments.

• Five detailed case studies of hybrid robo solutions incl. Schwab Institutional Intelligent Portfolios, Investec and Jemstep, and Hedgeable

• Recommendations on elements of human interaction that can enhance robo-advisors so as to win more clients 

• 20 recommendations for conventional wealth managers (for all wealth segments) to benefit from the opportunities that hybrid robo-advisors present

>>Click here for Report Summary and Table of Contents<<

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If you’re involved in the financial services industry at any level, you simply must understand the paradigm shift caused by robo-advisors.

Investors frustrated by mediocre investment performance, high wealth manager fees and deceptive sales techniques are signing up for automated investment accounts at a record pace.

And the robo-advisor field is evolving right before our eyes. Firms are figuring out on the fly how to best attract, service and upsell their customers. What lessons are they learning? Who’s doing it best? What threats are traditional wealth managers facing? Where are the opportunities for exponential growth for firms with robo-advisor products or models?

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