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Technology

eWrap veteran unveils free planning tool

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
The man behind Asgard Wealth Solutions' eWrap, former project director, Jan Kolbusz has resurfaced and developed decimal - a free website that allows financial planners to quickly make a statement of advice (SoA).

V-Wrap sales sky rocket

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
Praemium's online portfolio administration service, V-Wrap attracted a record number of new sales in the past two months, increasing by 20 and 30 per cent in June and July respectively compared to the same period's last year.

Philippines axes cheques for ATMs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
The Philippines is revving up its pension scheme by phasing out archaic cheques disbursement arrangements for an ATM-based system.

IRESS buys DMS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
Listed technology group IRESS buys Dealer Management Systems (DMS) for $6.65 million, in a deal that consolidates IRESS' technology play in planner commissions processing.

Vivid signs on Financial Simplicity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Vivid Financial has implemented Financial Simplicity's Enterprise Edition product to improve the trade efficiencies of their managed accounts portfolios.

Customer service goes high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Vignette has rolled out a new online system that brings traditionally hard to access wealth management customer service to the World Wide Web.

Praemium expands UK funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
ASX-listed Praemium Limited is on the brink of expanding its UK business after it approached the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) for authorisation of five new risk-based fund-of-fund portfolios.

Deloitte pushes for cyber advisers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Financial planners who don't exploit online technology could miss out, as technology savvy clients demand faster and more online-based services from them, according to Peter Williams, Deloitte Digital chief executive.

NZX plugs into SWIFTNet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
The New Zealand Exchange (NZX) selected SWIFTNet for its clearing and settlement messaging services.

Complex event processing made simple: Apama

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Detect, deploy, execute - fund managers and super funds can now implement better real-time analytics and event management with Apama 4.0, a new complex event processing (CEP) platform.