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Qantas Super takes flight with iqBoard

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... boards and committees," IQ Group's CEO Graham Sammells told Financial Standard. iqBoard is hosted by IQ Groups own cloud computing environment, iqCloud, and the whole system has been carefully secured and encrypted. "There are a series of passwords that ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... per cent), fruit (1.7 per cent) and cakes and biscuits (1.7 per cent). Also down were the prices of audio, visual and computing equipment (-4.3 per cent) and pharmaceutical products (-3.5 per cent). There was also a fall in health costs recorded in the ...

Cloud computing to boost real-time super

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
From real-time banking to real-time super, cloud computing adds a new dimension to how fund members can access their superannuation data in the future. This year's annual Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference in Sydney played ...

Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... this year found that Australians' use of mobile banking technology has become one of the premier applications of mobile computing. But the banks aren't having it their own way as PayPal is becoming just as dominant, they noted. Despite the push to online ...

Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall, global application leader - Risk & Financial Services at Towers Watson said Cloud offers "unique benefits ...

Move to horizontal integration for wraps

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... super fund administrator, according to Andrew Bird, executive director of Sharesight. Sharesight's product uses cloud computing to track portfolio returns and then link to accounts so dividends and corporate action fees are automatically pulled in with ...

Planners urged to commit to the cloud

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... advisers, said an online portfolio provider. Executive director of Sharesight, Andrew Bird explained said the cloud computing process made it easier to connect different systems together to provide efficiencies. "You can access information from anywhere ...

Class Super adds actuarial SMSF service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
Self managed super fund administration provider Class Super is using cloud computing to offer automated actuarial certificate data transfers for SMSF clients. Class Super, developed by Class Financial Systems, said it will provide real time access to ...

Cost of living outpacing retirement incomes

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... were for the rising price of food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals although retirees looking to purchase audio-visual and computing equipment were in luck with costs falling. Food, health, transportation and recreation made up the largest spending costs for ...

Company streamlines pension transfers from UK to Australia

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
A new company has harnessed cloud computing software to connect financial advisers to pensions experts in the UK to streamline the process of transferring UK pensions to Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were 1.04 million ...