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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People & Products

09 Jul

Sealcorp signs BT head of wrap

BT Financial Group head of wrap Dean Thomas has defected to Sealcorp after only six weeks in the role following the latter poaching him to join as its director of product...

Financial planning

09 Jul

PrefSure cuts distribution focus to core group

Risk insurance group PrefSure Life will cut its ties with up to 1500 financial planners choosing instead to focus on a core group of 45 advisers, saving $3 million in exp...

Financial planning

08 Jul

Citigroup positions for retail expansion

Citigroup Asset Management (CAM) is set to expand its retail presence in the Australian market with plans to launch a range of new products with the aim of building on it...

Financial planning

02 Jul

Asteron names new line-up

Asteron, the financial services arm of listed insurer Promina, has restructured its Australasian senior ranks, resulting in a number of new appointments across the group....

Financial planning

02 Jul

Praemium set for more deals

Virtual wrap provider Praemium Portfolio Services is set to add to its recent list of deals with the pending announcement that the system will be linked to Skandia’s inve...

Financial planning

30 Jun

Perpetual signs senior Mercer researcher

Mercer Investment Consulting head of research for retail products Chris Durack has been snared by Perpetual Investments to take on a new role covering research relationsh...

Financial planning

29 Jun

Equity Trustees gets responsible for Aberdeen

Equity Trustees (EQT) has struck a deal with Aberdeen Asset Management to provide responsible entity (RE) services for a range of the latter’s Asian equities funds....

Superannuation

23 Jun

Gov’t relents on pensions in SMSFs…

The Federal Government has backed down on plans to remove complying pensions from self managed superannuation funds (SMSF) with the addition of a transition allowing use ...

Financial planning

23 Jun

Choice of fund finally crosses the line…

After seven years of political hand-balling, choice of fund legislation was passed by the Senate last night to become Australian law with the Federal Government set to sp...

Financial planning

21 Jun

APRA offers super licensing guidelines

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is ramping up efforts to ensure superannuation trustees comply with the new superannuation licensing regime due to come int...