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Mercer partners with superMate in SMSF market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
Mercer has formed an alliance with Supercorp's cloud platform superMate to offer its clients a more efficient service to order actuarial certificates. The self managed super fund (SMSF) administration provider 'superMate' is designed to allow accountants ...

High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... trading is impacting the fairness and transparency of the market. However, research by the UK's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills could find no direct evidence that automated trading leads to increased volatility or abuse of the market. Many ...

Allianz wins top insurance award

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... an important role in helping reduce the levels of underinsurance in Australia." BT Financial Group won the prize for Innovation of the Year with income cover for homemakers while TAL won Life Insurance Company of the Year. Marsh won Insurance Broker ...

Towers Watson appoints new director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... development of this team over the last few years, and has worked very closely with Lesley Brown." Dr Hall sits on the Innovation Council for the Talent & Reward segment, responsible for designing processes and developing culture to facilitate innovation ...

BT Wrap first to hit tax statement deadline

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... come tax time. BT Financial group head of platforms, Kelly Power, said the achievement was the result of continued innovation and investment in the product. "Our commitment is to make the challenging end-of-financial-year process as quick and painless ...

AFA names finalists for the Adviser of the Year Award

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... Services. Richard Klipin chief executive at the AFA said that the future of advice is in great hands. "We are seeing innovation flourish and practice leadership grow and these finalists are a credit to this profession and the life changing advice they ...

Non-aligned advisers driving new platforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... feared. However, he said it had forced non-aligned groups and their service providers to be even more innovative. "This innovation is already seeing new types of open architecture platforms being developed by technology specialist groups targeting these ...

Super debate flawed: ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... currently in super, the age pension and future super contributions to address sequencing risk. "It's a really important innovation to try and do individual accounts based on their own circumstances rather than pool everybody together," Merton said.

Compliance stifling innovation: BTFG

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Industry preoccupation with FOFA and the amount of funds flowing into compliance has stifled innovation in the platforms space, BT's head of platform products said, while predicting an evolution in the way technology is used. Kelly Power said the three ...

AFA announces finalists

STAFF REPORTER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... Aspire Retire in Queensland complete the stable of finalists. AFA chief Richard Klipin said that the past year had seen innovation flourish and practice leadership grow. Zurich's life and investments business are sponsors of the awards and said that ...