Malavika Santhebennur

Malavika Santhebennur was a news and features financial services journalist at Money Management, part of Financial Express. She has previously written in various industrial publications at Cirrus Media, including mining, food, franchising, and health.

View articles by Malavika

Malavika 's social profiles:

News by this author

Financial planning

15 Jan

Lonsec pushes into adviser market with cloud solution

Lonsec Stockbroking has signalled a push into the adviser market, partnering with GBST to offer financial advisers a cloud-based practice management tool to manage whole-...

Superannuation

15 Jan

ASFA releases retirement standard for nonagenarians

Retirees in their 90s might spend less on average compared to younger retirees but their medical and aged care expenses increase significantly, the ASFA retirement standa...

Financial planning

14 Jan

Customers snub the big banks

The big four banks lag behind the smaller ones with a customer satisfaction rate of 67.6 per cent compared to smaller banks’ 72.2 per cent, Roy Morgan research found....

Superannuation

12 Jan

AIST and Mercer launch super tracker

AIST and Mercer have joined hands to develop a super tracker to objectively evaluate the super system ahead of its response to the FSI....

Superannuation

09 Jan

SPAA backs calls for specialist SMSF training

Calls by the Parliamentary Joint Committee for financial advisers to undertake specialist self-managed super fund training if they advise in this area has received a tick...

Funds management

08 Jan

First home buyers retreat from market

First home buying has fallen to its lowest level ever, making up just 6.9 per cent of all home loans, down from a previous long-term national average of 15 per cent, acco...

Superannuation

07 Jan

Merger sees cancellation of fund licence

ASIC cancelled the AFSL of Coal Industry Superannuation Fund after its merger with AUSCOAL Super last year....

People & Products

05 Jan

BOQ appoints CEO

Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has appointed Jon Sutton as managing director and chief executive officer, effective immediately....

Funds management

05 Jan

European investor confidence slumps

The State Street ICI showed European investor confidence took a significant hit in December 2014, falling 10.2 points from November’s revised level of 129.7, ...