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Technology

Plum gets news hub

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Strong demand from members for more information on super has prompted Plum Financial Services to launch its News Hub - an online news service for members.

Schroder Asia Pac adds SimCorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Schroder Investment Management has successfully implemented SimCorp Dimension across four Asia Pacific countries with its Australian office soon to follow.

Cloud computing comes to iPhone

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
New York Stock Exchange-listed Netsuite has brought a cloud computing mobile enterprise resource planning suite to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch in Australia.

SuperChoice signs TOWER super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
TOWER Australia joins a growing list of corporate super fund providers that have switched from doing choice-of-fund admin internally to outsourcing the role to clearinghouse specialist, SuperChoice.

AFS jumps on board Powerwarp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Australian Financial Services has become the first national dealer group to sign onto investment administration provider, Powerwrap Limited.

Seniors are tech savvy: survey

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Super funds may want to rethink how they communicate to older Australians after a survey found 96 per cent of those over the age of 50 own a mobile phone and a similar number use SMS.

Supercorp set to launch superMate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
Supercorp Australia is poised to unveil superMate, its next generation self managed superannuation fund administration software built on the technology of its current flagship product, SuperVisor II.

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Mercer has called for UK defined contribution pension plan trustees to adopt straight through processing (STP) systems or risk significant financial pain.

Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
A global investment manager survey has found more than 41 per cent of businesses are operating in the red and around three quarters have no cost reduction strategy.

Northern Trust targets risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Northern Trust has improved its online risk and performance tools with the inclusion of new technology to deliver risk attribution and Value at Risk (VaR) information.