NZ's Trustee Executors selects Sonata


New Zealand's largest provider of third party administration services, Trustees Executors Limited announced this week it had gone live with Bravura's Sonata and that it was the first company to implement Sonata for KiwiSaver.
The company said Bravura was providing the Sonata wealth management platform to Trustee Executors as a Managed Application Service, enabling it to focus resources on managing and building a business, while Bravura managed the IT arrangements.
Confirming the development Trustee Executors executive director, Rob Russell said the company had selected Sonata after an extensive evaluation process.
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