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Pension fund suffers million-dollar meltdown

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Super funds could learn a harsh lesson from a Philippines based pension fund, after a software meltdown cost the fund an estimated $120 million in damages and led to a court case against a contractor for libel. Information technology contractor Questronix ...

Planners prepare for retirement shock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... clients manage the pitfalls," said Pawski. "The numbers can be easy to do. We can do the calculations using a planning software but even the best-laid financial plan won't come to fruition if you don't take on board the non-financial issues as well," ...

Better insurance tech from IRESS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... information to the adviser desktop. The initiative will allow advisers to confirm the premium returned by IRESS' risk research software with CommInsure, and receive a complete quote for the client. CommInsure is also launching a data feed service which ...

BGL signs on to OneVue SMA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... with BGL Financial Services. The white-labelled product will be known as SMSF Invest, and will be distributed by SMSF software provider BGL Corporate Solutions. BGL Financial Services director, Mark Schroeder, says BGLFS evaluated all managed account ...

AMP gears up for changes in advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... efficiencies and productivity improvements - for example such as technology improvements through the rollout of COIN software," said a spokesperson of the firm. Dunn said the drive of the project was to make it easier for its customers to make informed ...

Easier contributions at HESTA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... any internet location. One perk of the new system is that employers would not need to install or download any special software to use the services. Once they are logged in, they can upload contribution data files from most widely-used accounting software ...

Banking customers get free anti-virus upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... anti-virus and internet security specialist AVG signed a deal to provide a free trial of the tech company's security software to the bank's clients. The bank's customers receive a 90-day trial and a 15 per cent discount licence on the AVG Internet Security ...

Bigger and better risk management

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... get you" is the latest mantra behind risk management technology, and Progress is putting that at the heart of its Apama software to instigate faster and better risk management. Progress, which counts the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Goldman Sachs ...

QIC adopts Sophis Value software

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
QIC has become the first Australian investment manager to implement the Sophis Value software platform. The Sophis Value platform is a multi-asset portfolio and risk management solution which will integrate a number of existing systems and provide an ...

Bravura tags FINCAD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... and managing director. FINCAD's analytics library is made available through the FINCAD Analytics Suite for Developers software development kit. It allows firms to embed the extensive library of cross-asset financial analytics into other applications ...