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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Large scale asset managers have not added to financial instability but weathered the financial crisis well according to ASIC and IOSCO chair, Greg Medcraft....

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ASIC has lost a legal action to penalise Mariner and past and current directors relating to a proposed takeover offer for Austock....

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Active management is sold on the basis of past performance and not bought by investors according to an indices provider executive....

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Boutique managers have added more wealth and outperformed benchmarks and non-boutique peers, in some cases for more than 20 years, according to new research....

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The interest for ETFs has not waned with international equity exchange traded funds (ETF) overtaking Australian equity ETFs with more products slated to hit the market....

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Corporate regulator wins some and loses one in busy week taking on fund management groups over their activities....

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Leading platform adds Global Absolute Return Strategies fund to investment menu for wholesale clients....

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The number of high net worth clients in Australia, and around the world, has continued to grow along with their appetite for robo-advice despite resistance from wealth ma...

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While Ellerston Capital has been managing money for nearly 15 years, many advisers are unlikely to have heard of it, but as Jason Spits writes, a shift in focus has alrea...

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Taxation in and around super should be left alone with adjustments made to personal tax rates for retirees more likely to stimulate growth, claims the SMSF Association....

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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 4 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 1 hour 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. ...

5 days 4 hours ago