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Polaris buys SEEC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Polaris Software has bought insurance software developer, SEEC in a move that will allow the firm to provide more products and services to the local wealth management industry. According to a Polaris statement, the deal will form one of the world's ...

Aussie tech providers score overseas deals

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... with Bravura would allow the firm to cost effectively expand in Vietnam. "Through this expansion, the company will apply modern technology to centralise and streamline its current processes and also rapidly launch new and innovative products," he said. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Australian shares were lower at noon on the back of ailing commodity prices and a strong negative lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 171.1 points, or 4.12 per cent, at 3,985, while the broader All Ordinaries lost ...

Health Super CIO departs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... the superannuation and investment industries." "He has successfully guided the organisation through the complexity of the modern investment environment and leaves Health Super significantly better placed than when he arrived." The fund expects to announce ...

Super funds to pass 'approved list'

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... the awards could be asked to choose a fund from the approved list." The Award modernisation process creates a system of modern awards that will operate along with the new Australian workplace relations system to take effect on January 2010. The AIRC ...

Aust must avoid Europe's ETS disaster

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... night at the Sydney Institute, said, "the European emissions trading scheme [ETS] was the biggest carve out in wealth in modern times in the name of the environment". Williams said Australia must learn as many lessons as it can from what Europe did wrong. ...

LUCRF makes history

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... 2008 marks a century since the introduction of age pensions and thirty years since the birth of LUCRF, Australia's first modern super fund. The revolution began a century ago when the Deakin government passed the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act 1908 ...

Wanted: Wharton scholar

CAMERON BOGGS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... than 220 executives representing the financial interests of over 10 million Australians. Participants will learn about modern portfolio theory, asset allocation and behavioral finance. The course also examines issues related to stocks, bonds, derivatives ...

Deloitte warns against split regulation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... "Responsible lending practices should underpin any credit issuance regardless of individual product characteristics. In such a modern an sophisticated financial market, we should develop a framework that fosters this," said Hardy. A national regulatory ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... lack of housing supply and excess demand is pushing up house and apartment prices beyond what is reasonable, is it that modern home owners just want nice houses but don't want to pay the going rate, or is it a welfare problem? The ill-definition might ...