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Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... capital goods firms. Apple gained 2.1 per cent a day after founder Steve Jobs reappeared from sick leave to introduce the new iPad 2 on Wednesday. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.57 per cent from 3.46 per cent late Wednesday. ...

Mobile internet tools take flight

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... up from 20 per cent last year. "This huge growth in shipments will be dominated by tablet-style technologies such as the iPad and will mainly be driven by consumers buying devices to complement their smartphones," said Tony Cripps, Ovum principal analyst ...

Of Jobs, Hu and Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
Jobs is leaving the building. Steve Jobs that is. Apple's CEO and the man voted CEO of the Year is taking a medical leave of absence. The news sent shares in the company falling. Because Jobs is Apple and Apple is Jobs. The world would not be with iPods ...

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. ...

IRESS to launch iPad-friendly XPLAN

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
IRESS Market Technology plans to launch new iPad-based adviser tools that will allow advisers to operate solely on their iPad. "We've got new tools coming out specifically designed to allow the advisers to interact with the client on an iPad and face-to-face," ...

Tower unveils iQuote app

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Tower has launched the Accelerated iQuote life insurance app for the iPhone and iPad - giving advisers the opportunity to roll out instant life insurance quotes on the go. Brett Clark, chief executive of TOWER Australia Retail Life, said Accelerated ...

Zurich launches iPhone app for life insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... with advisers David Clark of Goldram and Gary O'Sullivan of Blueleaf Consulting to develop a customer-facing app for the iPad. The app will give advisers a simpler template to analyse customer risk needs, recommend products, and provide immediate premium ...

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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overnight trading offshore, with major Wall Street indices all lower, but precious metals and copper were higher. Oil, too, fell. At 0748 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...