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First State Super plugs in with mobile app

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
First State Super has launched an iPhone app that allows its 530,000 members to monitor their super anytime.

AAS, Pillar and Superpartners brace for SuperStream

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
Three of Australia's largest fund administrators - AAS, Pillar Administration and Superpartners - have formed an affiliation that will take on board the recommendations from the Cooper Review to improve super fund back office efficiencies.

Asgard makes tax time easier for planners

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
Asgard has launched a new online process for planners to help them manage clients' personal tax deductions in super.

Aviva Investors selects Cadis for data

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
Aviva Investors has implemented the Cadis EDM platform to its US-based office and plans to roll out the data management platform to its other offices globally.

Funds thrive with nimble IT

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
A flexible and scaleable IT system has become even more important as more fund managers try to grow their business with less resources than before the GFC, said Pascal Wanner, account manager for the Swiss market at SimCorp.

ITM and Sequential partner for service

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
Independent Transition Management (ITM) and Sequential Project Services have partnered to provide an enhanced service for wealth management firms looking to consolidate systems or products or outsource administration.

Liquidnet taps NZ market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Liquidnet, a firm which provides a marketplace to facilitate institutional equities trading, is expanding its trading operations to include New Zealand listed securities.

Class Financial warns against poor SMSF admin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
Class Financial Systems, an SMSF software platform provider warns planners against companies posing as SMSF administrators but don't have the right systems in place and could potentially lock planning groups into inflexible and pricey agreements.

Crédit Agricole signs on Calypso

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
Crédit Agricole CIB has gone live with Calypso Technology systems across 23 locations in Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Tech firm supercharges search engine marketing

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
Financial services institutions could attract more clients to their website and better track the performance of their marketing campaigns through the new services of a tech outfit, NetSuite.