Jason Spits

Jason has been writing on financial services since 1999 and has worked on a number of trade media titles in both a full time and freelance capacity. He joined Money Management in 2013 in the role of Senior Journalist.

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Financial planning

11 Apr

ASIC to gain sweeping new powers

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will gain sweeping powers to ban advisers under CLERP 6 draft legislation, according to an industry lawyer....

Financial planning

10 Apr

National buys MLC for $4.5 billion

The National Australia Bank confirmed industry rumours by officially announcing it will purchase MLC from Lend Lease for $4.56 billion cash, with a completion date set fo...

Financial planning

05 Apr

Mercer signs Asgard back office

William M Mercer has signed Sealcorp to provide the back office administration for its new portfolio management service....

Financial planning

30 Mar

Comsec fires first salvo in broking war

The Commonwealth Bank has set the scene for a online trading battle, after drop-ping the price for share trades via Commonwealth Securities (ComSec) to less than twenty d...

Financial planning

30 Mar

Dealers under the microscope

In an episode of the cult television cartoon, The Simpsons, mother Marge buys into a pretzel cart franchise for $500....

Financial planning

30 Mar

Joint venture targets registry market

Perpetual Registrars is to team up with the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in a joint venture, ASX Perpetual Registrars Limited (APRL), in a bid to increase market share...

Financial planning

30 Mar

International News 30/03 – Egg offers a full dozen

Prudential’s Egg online banking unit plans to start selling 169 mutual funds from 12 different companies over the Internet, the first fund supermarket for UK investors. ...

Financial planning

29 Mar

ASSIRT expands research

Research house ASSIRT is to add a stock market research arm to its operations, after the purchase of an interest in LM Equities Research from Leodaritsis Morgan Holdings ...

Financial planning

29 Mar

Next.direct Conference – Industry seeks to harness web

Awareness of the Internet is now widespread throughout the financial services industry as is the volume of information which comes with the new medium....

Financial planning

22 Mar

BankWest sets Precedent with Plan B

Western Australian banking group BankWest and financial planning group Prece-dent have entered into a joint venture to produce Plan B Financial Services....