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

18 Nov

IWL secures a fifth of Sanford

The deal between IWL and Sanford was cemented further yesterday with the former increasing its stake in the latter to just under 20 per cent....

Financial planning

18 Nov

Most Influential: David Knott

David Knott’s name is one that sits among the big names of financial services despite the fact that he has not made an investment decision in over three years....

Financial planning

14 Nov

Lonsec first to shift rating on Colonial small cap fund

Lonsec has become the first research group to changes its rating for the Colonial First State Future Leaders Fund, moving to a hold position after senior portfolio manage...

People & Products

13 Nov

New head for Colonial small cap funds

Colonial First State has announced a further changing of the guard within its funds as Barry Henderson, the portfolio manager of the group’s Future Leaders Fund will leav...

Funds management

12 Nov

Van Eyk finds growth in tactical asset allocation

Van Eyk Research has released its annual review on the balanced fund sector, finding an increase in managers adopting tactical asset allocation (TAA) strategies as well a...

Policy & Regulation

11 Nov

Tax schemes prompt super complaints

Mass marketed tax schemes and unpaid Superannuation Guarantee contributions raised the ire of most taxpayers when complaining about superannuation to the Australian Tax O...

Financial planning

08 Nov

Advisers step up to platform en masse

Platforms have long been a key method to access a range of investments and as JASON SPITS reports, rather than being brought down by recent markets, they have continued t...

Financial planning

08 Nov

Most Influential: Andrew Mohl

If the Most Influential list was to have a rising star among its ranks that person for this year would have to be AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl....

Financial planning

08 Nov

More educators, more choice, better future

Financial services education has been a hot topic throughout this year but the issue is about to get even hotter due to a decision made by National Finance Industry Train...

Financial planning

08 Nov

Education no longer tied to DFP

FINANCIAL planners will now be able to gain industry standard education without the need to complete the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) Diploma of Financial Plann...