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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The back and forth nature of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) amendments are likely to cause consumers to put off seeking financial planning advice costing them abou...

AMP Capital has announced a series of changes among its senior ranks with two executives taking on new roles while its infrastructure team has been restructured causing t...

Investment technology group OneVue has signed a five year contract to provide a badged platform to online investment and research service the Eureka Report....

Retirees are trapped between low yielding cash and bonds and higher yielding equity markets that on average suffer 30 per cent drops with the funds management industry st...

Countplus has named the current chief executive of its largest subsidiary as its new chief executive and managing director, replacing incumbent Michael Spurr...

More women are employed in financial services than men but still lag in leadership roles and still face sizable gaps in their remuneration...

Advisers can still move between licensees and retain trail commissions if licensees agree to act as ‘a good corporate citizen’ and pay advisers no longer in their group....

Two former WealthSure clients have been granted an application for special leave to appeal the reduction of their claim against the planning group and to compel its profe...

The disallowance of the Future of Financial Advice amendments may hurt consumers who will not be able to access scaled advice and may be forced to change to less suitable...

ASIC has begun civil proceeding against the founder and former directors of LM Investment Management Ltd alleging the directors failed in their duties to act with diligen...

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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 3 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. ...

2 weeks ago

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

6 days 3 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. ...

1 week ago