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Midwinter pairs AdviceOS with online accounting platform

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
Midwinter Financial Services has integrated its recently launched AdviceOS financial planning software with online accounting platform Xero Cashbook. Midwinter said this combination of software "in the cloud" will enable financial advisors to oversee ...

Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
Investors should not interpret the performance differences between developed and emerging markets as a decoupling of the link between them, according to AllianceBernstein fund manager Morgan Harting. Emerging markets have performed poorly this year ...

Black Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following mixed performances on world markets overnight. At 0847 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 5,365. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian ...

UFS adopts Rubik's 'Bank in a Box' technology

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
Uniting Financial Services (UFS), the treasury arm of the Uniting Church, has fully adopted Rubik's Software as a Service (SaaS) product. The 'Bank in a Box' solution provides comprehensive banking software via cloud technology to financial organisations ...

Accountants cautious to enter advice space

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
Accountants are entering the advice space in very limited numbers and almost six months after the accountant exemption ended, only 31 have applied for a limited Australian financial services licence (AFSL). "Accountants will not be rushing into limited ...

BetaShares set to increase adviser focus

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
Exchange traded funds (ETF) provider BetaShares will increase its presence in the financial advice space with the newly created role of director of Adviser Services. Lyndall James has been appointed to the role and she will be responsible for leading ...

IOOF joins Calastone's automated network

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
IOOF has joined Calastone's global funds transaction network, which allows the automation of fund transactions between different fund managers and distributors. Previously, platforms and funds were communicating exclusively by fax machine. Calastone ...

Right direction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013

ASIC beefs up surveillance system

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
New upgrades to the Australian Securities and Exchange Commission's (ASIC) market surveillance system allowing the regulator to conduct multi-market supervision across futures and equities in real time are now operational. According to financial services ...