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Rubik launches COIN app

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
Technology provider Rubik Financial has launched an iPad application that allows financial planners to access clients' portfolios directly from COIN software. Advisers can also update the personal details of existing clients, create new client groups ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
The Australian share market has opened sharply higher amid some much-needed good news for investors following recent losses that have wiped out all of this year's gains. The two main contributing factors were some strong US economic data that led to ...

Labor completes super agenda with passage of four bills

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
The federal government's superannuation reform agenda is complete following the passage of four bills through the Senate last night. Included in the new laws (listed below) was an increase in concessional contribution caps to $35,000 for people over ...

Guardian Advice monetises new medical service for advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
Risk specialist dealer group Guardian Advice has launched a medical and pathology service, in partnership with Health Predictions, for advisers to easily refer clients and get a share of the profits. When medical and pathology testing is needed as part ...

Women in Super raise $5m for breast cancer research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
Women in Super raised a record $5 million at the 2013 Mother's Day Classic, which will be used to fund breast cancer research. Since 1998, the advocacy group has raised $19.8 million since it started to collect funds for cancer research. The Mother's ...

Nikko AM appoints chief legal officer

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
Nikko Asset Management has appointed Ross Long to its senior management team as chief legal officer. He will be responsible for the funds management business' global legal functions. Long has been involved in the law and finance industries for nearly ...

Wall Street to stage cyberattack wargame drill

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
Wealth management groups in the US are so concerned about cyber attacks they are staging an all out system wide drill to test their preparedness and countermeasures. The drill, code named Quantum Dawn 2, is set down for 28 June and is being co-ordinated ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
I beg your pardon, but was that it? Was that the song we've waited all this time for Big Benny to sing? The song remains the same to me. The same tune Ben Bernanke sang on the 22nd of May. The June FOMC statement was practically a rehash of the one ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
It's now or never. Last chance to place your bets - check, raise or fold - before Big Ben Bernanke shows his hands. Gauging from Wall Street's back-to-back gains over the first two trading days of this week, it appears that the money is on Big Ben revealing ...

Industry "disappointed" at PJC recommendation

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
The financial services industry has expressed disappointment over the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC), which yesterday recommended the Parliament not to amend the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) bill. The PJC on Corporations and Financial ...