Manual
Providing Advice: Compliance Manual - AFSL, Wholesale
Last updated: 23 April 2024
Are you a financial services business that provides personal advice to retail and/or wholesale clients?
Our extensive suite of policy templates and templates addresses the obligations imposed on AFS licensees under:
- the Corporations Act 2001;
- the Corporations Regulations 2001;
- ASIC Regulatory Guides (RG);
- ASIC instruments; and
- AFS licence conditions.
Each of the policy templates and templates below, once tailored to your business will assist you and your advisers in meeting their ongoing advice and disclosure obligations.
Each licence holder will require a slightly different combination of these materials, depending on their activities and licence authorisations.
The following is a list of core obligations included in the manual:
- Advice Fees (excluding OFAs)
- Aged Care
- Best Interests Duty (BID)
- Code of Ethics
- Gearing and Margin Lending
- Insurance
- Investment Products
- Key Obligations
- Managed Discretionary Accounts
- Ongoing Advice (including FDS)
- Overseas Clients
- Super and SMSF Advice
- Vulnerable Clients
Included documents
Document | Version | Type | Date |
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Providing Advice Compliance Manual Part A (Key Obligations) - AFSL | - | Compilation | 19 March 2024 |
Providing Advice Compliance Manual Part B (Specific Advice Areas) - AFSL | - | Compilation | 23 April 2024 |
Providing Advice – Tools - AFSL | - | Compilation | 12 Feb. 2024 |
Financial Services Guide (FSG): Adviser Profile - AFSL | 3.0 | Tool | 17 Sept. 2021 |
Financial Services Guide (FSG): Authorised Representative (AR) and Corporate Authorised Representative (CAR) Version - AFSL | 5.0 | Tool | 17 Sept. 2021 |
Financial Services Guide (FSG): Licensee Version - AFSL | 5.0 | Tool | 17 Sept. 2021 |
Financial Services Guide (FSG): Managed Discretionary Account - AFSL | 1.0 | Tool | 9 June 2023 |
Financial Services Guide (FSG): Provisional Adviser Profile - AFSL | 1.0 | Tool | 17 Sept. 2021 |
FSG Checklist Template - AFSL | 3.0 | Tool | 30 March 2023 |
First Interview Letter Template - AFSL | 2.0 | Tool | 8 Oct. 2020 |
Statement of Advice - AFSL | 1.0 | Tool | 24 March 2022 |
Statement of Advice (IBR) - AFSL | 1.0 | Tool | 7 Dec. 2022 |
ROA Template - AFSL | 3.0 | Tool | 7 Dec. 2022 |
Sample Disclaimers and Warnings - AFSL | 2.0 | Tool | 2 April 2020 |
Client Fact Sheet – Contributing To Super – Your Options - AFSL | 4.0 | Tool | 17 Nov. 2022 |
Client Fact Sheet – Retirement Income – Your Options - AFSL | 3.0 | Tool | 17 Nov. 2022 |
Client Fact Sheet – Death Benefits in Super – Your Options - AFSL | 1.0 | Tool | 7 Dec. 2020 |