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Customer service goes high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Vignette has rolled out a new online system that brings traditionally hard to access wealth management customer service to the World Wide Web. The new Vignette Case Manager allows organisations to automate and track customer transactions across multiple ...

The house that Sherry built

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
The man who chaired the passage of the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) Bill 20 years ago is back in the limelight, this time with ambitious plans to dismantle the country's jerry-built superannuation system and replace it with a cheaper and more member-friendly ...

FutureWise on track with advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
Over 300 advisers have given Macquarie's FutureWise platform the thumbs up when it comes to user and underwriting support, communications and application process ease, a new survey shows. The research, which was conducted by Information Research Management ...

Pentafin tags Thunderhead for SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Pentafin has secured the Thunderhead NOW platform to support its unit trust and managed accounts (MA) business. Pentafin partnered with Thunderhead following a global hunt for a solution provider to cater to the technology firm's MA and unit trust requirements. ...

Suncorp selects Symantec

Suncorp turns to one of the global giants in IT security systems, Symantec, to help improve the group's security infrastructure, simplify data center management systems and reduce storage costs. Paul Cameron, executive general manager, BT Infrastructure ...

Options Strategy branches out to Spark Green

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
Melbourne-based marketing firm Options Strategy has developed Spark Green, which provides effective digital and online marketing services for financial services institutions and super funds. Spark Green specialises in research, developing and executing ...

Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

Multi-manager ipac securities has moved approximately $160 million out of BT and into Prisma Capital Partners, a US-based fund of hedge fund represented locally by alternatives consultant Brookvine. Up until last month, Ipac invested the sums with BT ...

SBI eyes infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
The State Bank of India (SBI) has positioned its portfolios to capture the expected boost in domestic infrastructure investment in India. Aashish Wakankar, SBI Funds Management vice president and fund manager, said the lack of infrastructure to support ...

India dominates global IPO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
The volatile Indian stock market may have been hit harder than stock markets in the developed world during January but it hasn't frightened companies that believe in its upside, judging on latest global IPO data. The Indian market wide NIFTY index from ...

Quadrant members say no to email

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
In an age where information technology is becoming more and more integrated into daily life, more than three quarters of the members Tasmanian super Quadrant prefer to have their super fund information sent by snail mail. The TNS conducted research ...