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AMP easywrite eases insurance pain

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
Financial planners can cut the time it takes to apply for a lump sum insurance policy for their clients by a third, after AMP updated its underwriting service. The automated service, easywrite, allows planners or customers to complete an application ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Returned Services League (RSL) has urged the government to reject plans to change the military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military ...

IRESS software gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
IRESS' planning software, XPLAN, has recorded the highest level of satisfaction amongst planners for fully featured planning software, a new report shows. According to the latest Investment Trends Planner Technology report, XPLAN - a web-deployed platform ...

Synchron rolls out new IT system

Adviser group Synchron has redesigned its website adding extra marketing tools and an option to run consolidated client reports. Starting next month, the Synchron.net.au website that advisers use will be more client-focused, concentrating on giving ...

MFS morphs into GEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
MFS Diversified Limited has been renamed to GEO Property Group as security holders yesterday gave the green light for a name swap. The firm flagged the change last month in a bid to distance itself from it's troubled listed business, MFS Limited. "This ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... 0.68 per cent higher at 22,617.01 points. WELLINGTON - After a strong start, the New Zealand sharemarket slipped into the red, reflecting a mixed performance in Asia and on Wall St. The benchmark NZSX-50 index erased the previous day's gains, falling ...

Perpetual raises death benefits

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Perpetual has upgraded its WealthFocus platform enabling advisers to automate the processing of a type of death benefit called 'anti-detriment payments', with the end result of a bigger lump sum payment for the benefit recipient. An anti-detriment payment ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... $35.27 and Rio Tinto was up $2.00, or 1.71 per cent, to $119.00. Mr Heffernan said the major bank stocks mostly were in the red after strong rises yesterday. "Commonwealth Bank has done very well today," he said. "The other banks are a bit soft, but ...

Super SA selects SyncSoft

Super SA has signed up SyncSoft to provide the payroll system that will handle the SA government's 15,000 lifetime pension accounts. John O'Flaherty, Super SA's chief executive said SyncSoft's Capital software is particularly strong in reporting, processing ...

ADPIA lobbies against relic property laws

The peak body for direct property investors has called for each State Revenue Office in Australia to standardise stamp duty and get rid of archaic property trust regulations. Linden Toll, the president of the Australian Direct Property Investment Association ...