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Australia missing out on $34.5bn tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Australian businesses are underperforming in use of digital technologies and could be missing out on a $34.5 billion opportunity, according to Accenture research. Australia ranks eight out of the 17 leading economies measured on the Accenture Digital ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... 2014 core earnings by $1.35 per share from the $2.96 per share previously reported in light of the settlement. Avago Technologies, which makes semiconductors used in smartphones and other devices, jumped 14.7 per cent on news its first-quarter net income ...

Embrace client interests or wither on the vine, advisers told

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... Technology will also challenge our industry. An EY study found financial services is sector most likely to be disrupted by technologies such as robo advice. "Right now, advisers and other industry professionals should make hay while the sun shines. Get ...

BMR integrates Xero SMSF practice management software

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... executive Andrea Slattery discussed the growing importance of new technology in SMSF administration. "I think these technologies have a significant role going forward. So we understand the concept of technology disruption, and I think it's really important ...

Tech "arms race" to spur banking competition

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... business lines." The outlook report hinted at technology innovations likely to transform the market: "The evolution of technologies such as digital printing may eventually enable customers to issue their own cards at home - if cards have not been usurped ...

Andrew Hewison takes over Hewison Private Wealth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... refreshed approach to client service through innovation and improvement over the long term, particularly through new technologies," John Hewison said, and added that the firm's philosophy and focus on high net worth clients "remains unchanged." Current ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... economic activity in industrial countries and investments in additional energy production and energy conservation technologies helped to saturate the market with oil and brought an end to the oil crisis. Beginning in mid-1980, real oil prices began to ...

SS&C acquires DST Global Solutions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
SS&C Technologies Holdings has acquired DST Global Solutions Ltd., a subsidiary of DST Systems, for $95 million in cash. DST Global's products now owned by SS&C include industry-leading investment and fund accounting platform, HiPortfolio, and investment ...

State Street partners with wealth management tech provider

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... access to FNZ's wealth management technology solutions. The combined solution brings together FNZ's global platform technologies and State Street's custody and asset servicing capabilities to provide a range of personalised wealth administration services ...

New tech can't beat face-to-face advice meetings

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Despite the emergence of new technologies such as Skype and social media, more than eight of 10 consumers still prefer an old-fashioned face-to-face meeting with their financial adviser. That's according to new research from State Super Financial Services ...