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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Accounting

25 Jan

Accountants need tailored licensing regime

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

Funds management

21 Jan

Global shares outshine Australian counterparts

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

Accounting

20 Jan

Accountant licence take-up sluggish

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

Policy & Regulation

19 Jan

FSC calls for 22pc company tax

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....

Financial planning

18 Jan

Former Macquarie Equities representative banned

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

Financial planning

18 Jan

Use robo-advice as diagnostic tool

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

Funds management

15 Jan

Moves to curtail hedging opposed

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

Financial planning

14 Jan

Advisers ‘pawns’ of financial industry

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. ...

Financial planning

13 Jan

Experienced risk advisers need not re-train

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

Accounting

12 Jan

Wealth management the mainstay of mid-sized accountant firms

While most accounting firms expect revenue from wealth management in FY16, mid-sized firms are more confident in the area compared to large firms, research reveals....