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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market was higher at noon on stronger showings by by miners and banks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15.8 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 4,884.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 13.5 points, or ...

Mobile internet tools take flight

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... the iPhone and iPad in November, and Zurich also has an iPhone app for life insurance quotes. In October, dealer group Synchron conducted its training course for advisers entirely on the iPad - setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. ...

Synchron taps online advice for growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Hot on the tail of its successful iPad-based financial planning conference, dealer group Synchron inks a growth strategy underpinned by the 'category killer'. The group, which currently has 176 advisers, plans to have 280 advisers by the end of 2013. ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Dealer group Synchron's training conference next month for its financial advisers will be run entirely on an iPad, setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. Some 50 financial advisers who are attending the group's Next Generation Training ...

Don't limit adviser choice: Synchron

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
Synchron has renewed calls for firms to not limit advisers to a 'tight' list of platforms, products or risk providers to chase volume bonuses. In a press release, Synchron said it was not in advisers or their clients' best interest to artificially limit ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Whew! Thank goodness we got some reprieve from the avalanche of economic data released over the past few days. Wall Street closed flat to up overnight as it nervously awaits what the mother of all economic releases - the US Non-farm Payrolls report ...

Synchron grows adviser base by 40pc

COMNPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Non-aligned dealer group Synchron has increased its adviser numbers by 40 per cent with the appointment of 44 new advisers last year. Synchron now has 154 advisers. The dealer group aims to have 200 advisers on board by Christmas 2010. Of these, 20 ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... restoring market confidence and prevent further insider trading cases. John Prossor, director and compliance manager at Synchron, said it was time "ASIC were given [investigative] teeth" to deal with these offences. The changes will bring the critical ...

Synchron adds consultant after growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
Synchron has hit the 150-financial-adviser mark and hired a practice development consultant. The financial advice group appointed Neil McKay as practice development consultant. McKay is a financial adviser who has also acted as a risk insurance consultant ...

Cooper the competition crusader is coming

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Jeremy Cooper, head of the government's all powerful review into the structure of superannuation, has poured cold water on a national default fund but opened the door to a tiered model that would allow fund members to step up into more sophisticated ...