Malavika Santhebennur

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.

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Most of the industry input around advice education standards came from institutions and industry associations, and lacked input from all stakeholders....

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Financial planners should offer tailored licensing regimes with certain authorisations to accountants instead of trying to shoehorn them into the planner model, The Fold ...

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Global share strategies beat their Australian counterparts on average, with the median manager returning 12.7 per cent on an unhedged basis....

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ASIC numbers revealed application and approval numbers remained low for accountants even as the removal of the accountants exemption for advising on SMSFs loomed....

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The FSC proposed a 22 per cent company tax rate in its tax reform package to boost Australia’s competitiveness while lower tax rates would be paid for by a higher GST....

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A former Macquarie Equities Limited representative has been banned from providing financial services following investigations by ASIC as part of its Wealth Management Pro...

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Robo-advice should be used to examine investors’ choices and enhance their investments rather than starting from scratch. ...

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A lobby group has opposed the Government’s move to limit brokers’ use of client funds to hedge against their financial risks. ...

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Financial advisers were ‘pawns’ in the financial industry to distribute products in the past, but this will no longer cut muster, a consultant firm principal believes. ...

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Reforms to education for advisers should include pathways for existing advisers, and risk advisers with decades of experience should not have to re-train....

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