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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ISA has fired a last shot across the bows of retail financial advice before the release of the FSI report calling for the “conflict-ridden, vertically integrated business...

Small cap managers should not be considered only on the size of their funds under management due to differing strategies in that sector of the market where stock values c...

Capital Group has ramped up its retail distribution push shifting from working through third parties to recruiting its own team of account managers and sales support staf...

Government and regulators have focussed on life insurance commissions purely as a dollar amount while not acting on churn in other commission based advice sectors....

Poor advice relating to life insurance is a systemic issue and not epithet work of a few rogues, according to ASIC....

BT Financial Group has been named Risk Company of the Year in the Money Management/DEXX&R Risk Company of the Year Awards....

Active small cap fund managers have outperformed their index for the decade but are expected to find similar performance harder to replicate as the resources boom falls a...

Latest figures from the ATO has debunked the myth that more young people are piling into SMSFs and that trustees are bulking up on residential property according to SPAA....

ASIC has reiterated its calls for a national exam stating that recent changes around education still did not guarantee a consistent national standard for advice....

A Perth based financial planner has begun a campaign to seek an apology from independent senator Jackie Lambie after she labelled financial advisers as ‘unscrupulous’....

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