Jason Spits

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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John Trowbridge has challenged the life insurance sector to adopt and contribute to suggested changes instead of criticising the models raised....

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The FPA is concerned that professional associations listed on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register may not be relevant to advice and confuse consumers....

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ISA claims major banks are irreconcilably conflicted and act against consumers with latest no-advice charges the smoking gun for their poor behaviour....

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The Financial Adviser Register (FAR ) will be expanded in scope as ASIC begins requesting information relating to the education and membership of professional association...

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Life insurance sector has weeks, not months to deal with Trowbridge, according to Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg....

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FOS claims industry wide dispute resolution standards should be adopted amid concerns that various customer remediation schemes may be seen as lacking in consistency and ...

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Only around a quarter of exchange traded funds (ETF) investments come off the back of advice despite a 46 per cent increase in investors last year creating advice opportu...

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Investors should not shift away from active management toward passive strategies with recent poor performance by the former a result of exceptional market conditions and ...

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Gen Y consumers are sceptical of advice and are seeking other sources of advice and information...

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Robo-advice will expand rapidly into the SMSF sector with investors over age 60 becoming one of the fastest growing groups of users according to a new report...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

1 week 5 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

4 days 22 hours ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

6 days 1 hour ago