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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Financial planning

11 Jun

FirstChoice to offer wholesale pricing

Colonial First State will offer wholesale pricing on its investment platform FirstChoice with an average total fee of 1 per cent....

Financial planning

02 Jun

Small cap funds struggle after closing

Small cap funds do not always perform better after closing despite this often being the justification for closing a fund to new investments, according to findings release...

Financial planning

01 Jun

ASIC eases licensing for foreign fund managers

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has updated its criteria for foreign collective investment schemes (FCIS) offering products into Australia and...

Financial planning

31 May

PlanTech signs four dealers to planning package

Financial services technology provider PlanTech Consulting Group has experienced encouraging industry support for its new planning software tool, 4Cast, with four dealer ...

Financial planning

28 May

Gov’t agrees to same-sex super entitlements

The Federal Government has given in to long term pressure by lobby groups and the Democrats to offer the same superannuation benefits to same-sex couples in the area of t...

People & Products

25 May

Lonsec names Newnham as distribution head

Lonsec has named the former head of distribution with Zurich Financial Services, Steve Newnham, as its’ marketing and distribution manager as part of a raft of changes wi...

Financial planning

24 May

Early release super scheme shut down

The Federal Court in Brisbane has prevent the trustee of a self-managed superannuation fund from offering any services or advice involvement in a scheme illegally promoti...

Financial planning

21 May

Managers perform but fail to add value

Active investment managers offering Australian and international funds have collectively failed to justify their higher management fees after only marginally outperformin...

Financial planning

19 May

CBA restructure focuses on front end

The Commonwealth Bank has merged its Premium Financial Services (PFS) and Institutional and Business Services (IBS) divisions resulting in the departure of IBS group exec...

Funds management

18 May

Deutsche offers leveraged fund-of-hedge-funds

Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) will offer margin lending for its hedge fund-of-funds after striking a deal with Tricom Equities with the latter to co-distribute the pro...