TECHNOLOGY

Financial planning

A partnership between IRESS and netwealth will provide advisers with “straight-through processing” and decreasing back office inefficiencies through XPLAN software integr...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government is launching a national fintech taskforce to help cement Australia’s credentials as “the leading market” for financial technology innovation in Asia Pacifi...

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Funds management

Accenture launches specialised practice for banks and brokers to implement blockchain technology and distributed ledger solutions. ...

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Financial planning

Macquarie Wealth Management hopes to capture the 80 per cent of Australians who do not access financial advice, with the launch of its OwnersAdvisory model....

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People & Products

KPMG has acquired technology consultancy, Markets IT, as it builds out its capital markets strategy....

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Financial planning

Colonial First State (CFS) has launched a new mobile app which it claims will help financial advisers provide better service for their clients....

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Funds management

Banks in Australia and New Zealand are lagging behind when it comes to providing “frictionless mobile experiences” for wealth management products, a study found....

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Funds management

Australian banks will need to adopt a forward-looking approach and move to leverage new technologies to counter new risk and regulatory threats, according to a new study....

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Life/Risk

DomaCom’s crowd-funding campaign to purchase the Kidman Station has received a welcome boost with support from an SMSF administration provider....

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Financial planning

High net worth individuals looking to invest in technology are being urged to seek specialist advice as the sector slows down....

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Superannuation

Coal industry super fund, Mine Wealth and Wellbeing has taken a stake in super administration technology provider, Recreo....

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Life/Risk

Life risk insurance specialist Omnium has added new features and integration capabilities to their technology research solution, OmniLife....

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Life/Risk

Midwinter enhances its insurance modelling capability within its cloud platform, AdviceOS, in a bid to accelerate the efficiency of life insurance advice generation....

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People & Products

Gender diversity will remain a key area of focus for the financial services sector at the leadership level in 2016, according to recruitment specialist HAYS....

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Policy & Regulation

Implementing individual requirements, and adapting business strategy to regulatory initiatives, is best done with an understanding of policy intent and future reforms, De...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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