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Super software given extra accounting grunt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... itself with CCH Australia, part of global giant Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, to integrate its products with CCH's platforms. It will also combine CCH's suite of content, software applications and workflow tools into the system. The partnership allows ...

AMP embeds AXA management into new structure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... director of product manufacturing Rob Caprioli, will manage all superannuation, retirement and investment products and platforms, including North. Another new division is strategic sales and marketing, focused on developing the AFS business strategy ...

Advisers demand platform opt-in support

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... with 14.8% of the adviser respondents with their own AFSL. What's more, 55% of advisers feel limited in their choice of platforms and of these, 36% would like access to other platforms in the market "The reforms present platforms a new opportunity to ...

Certitude partners with Threadneedle on global fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... the actively managed Threadneedle Global Select Fund and target the local retail market including financial planners, platforms, dealer groups, self-managed super funds and research houses. "A lot of people are trying to work out how to get access to ...

Big six use advisers for sales while clients confused on independence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... is that all major players offer wrap and platform products and so the funds invested may be invested through branded platforms but the funds are actually going to fund managers outside the group." More worrying to financial planners was that the Roy ...

SMSF industry responsibility

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... they want control, and they prefer equities over manage funds. As an industry, do we sit here and watch as our funds platforms and managed funds dwindle away and continue to accelerate into this channel of SMSF, cash and direct equities or do we ask ...

IOOF tweaks platform risk insurance for super

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... coverage, with the entry and expiry age for both death and TPD cover extended to 75." The changes will affect several IOOF platforms and plans. Affected are: IOOF Pursuit Select & Core Personal Superannuation, IOOF Portfolio Service Personal Superannuation ...

Asteron takes on CFS FirstChoice risk offering

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... through the CFS platform." Asteron advisers will have the choice of paying premiums through the Colonial First State platforms, FirstChoice and FirstWrap. Hawke said that despite the proposed ban on risk commissions for insurance held inside super, Asteron ...

Omnium updates life quotes web tool

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... financial planners to follow up with a sale to the client, he said. Several dealer groups have approved the tool for their platforms including Millennium 3 and Infocus Financial, he said. Insurance providers such as AIA Australia have also made life ...

Citi wins fund administration mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... Bermuda, London and Vancouver and trading for its funds in Australia will now be linked with Citi's custody and accounting platforms. Globally, Citi has US$12 trillion of assets under custody.