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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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Accountants who provide SMSF advice without a licence risk not being covered by professional indemnity insurance, as insurers treat accountants and financial advisers dif...
Financial advisers who promise to provide ongoing portfolio monitoring services but fail to do so face liability if the client suffers financial loss....
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Sydney-based general product advice provider, Etern Wisdom, for breaching both its obligations and its licence conditions. ...
The FSC has been accused of acting in haste on churn in the Life Insurance Framework, with a group saying it wants ASIC to justify LIF by proving the churn issue after th...
ASIC has removed additional conditions it imposed on Macquarie Bank’s AFSL after a review by KPMG found no additional breaches to those the bank had already reported. ...
School-like exams might not be appropriate for all advisers under the new education standards, and the word 'exam' should be removed from the Exposure Draft, the AFA said...
There was a lack of understanding of general investment concepts such as diversification and risk/return trade-off among Australians, with males more likely to understand...
Advisers were spending 30 hours a week on administration but only nine hours meeting clients face-to-face despite a desire to meet clients more....
HUB24 has partnered with Sentry Group to provide it with managed portfolio platforms as the advice group encourages advisers to consider tax impacts on clients’ investmen...
Macquarie Securities has paid a $120,000 penalty after the corporate regulator found it had breached market integrity rules and narrowed filter parameters. ...
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