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Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall, global application leader - Risk & Financial Services at Towers Watson said Cloud offers "unique benefits ...

Move to horizontal integration for wraps

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... super fund administrator, according to Andrew Bird, executive director of Sharesight. Sharesight's product uses cloud computing to track portfolio returns and then link to accounts so dividends and corporate action fees are automatically pulled in with ...

Planners urged to commit to the cloud

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... advisers, said an online portfolio provider. Executive director of Sharesight, Andrew Bird explained said the cloud computing process made it easier to connect different systems together to provide efficiencies. "You can access information from anywhere ...

Class Super adds actuarial SMSF service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
Self managed super fund administration provider Class Super is using cloud computing to offer automated actuarial certificate data transfers for SMSF clients. Class Super, developed by Class Financial Systems, said it will provide real time access to ...

Cost of living outpacing retirement incomes

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... were for the rising price of food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals although retirees looking to purchase audio-visual and computing equipment were in luck with costs falling. Food, health, transportation and recreation made up the largest spending costs for ...

Company streamlines pension transfers from UK to Australia

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
A new company has harnessed cloud computing software to connect financial advisers to pensions experts in the UK to streamline the process of transferring UK pensions to Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were 1.04 million ...

Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... month's losses). So what's funny about these? Glad you ask. I know financial markets have a very short memory. Thanks to computing technology and archive folders, I can easily remind you that -- the short-lived "bin Laden is dead" bounce aside -- early ...

Financial services feel cloud benefit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
A shift towards cloud computing has resulted in significant return on investment, according to a Bloomberg technology survey of financial services companies. Over one hundred chief information officers and technology decision makers from major financial ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... and the one before that. At this point, I'd like to share with you my growing suspicion about earnings estimates. Is computing power still not powerful enough these days that over the past four quarters, at the very least, majority of actuals beat expectations? ...

Industry still lagging on green IT

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... still to be realised," said Alison Rowe, global sustainability executive director, Fujitsu Group. Data centres, cloud computing and paperless offices are key areas of development, while some companies, including Suncorp, are understood to be considering ...