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  • FACT SHEET: AML/CTF Reforms Communication Tips & Tricks

    21 Oct 2025

    If your business is preparing to comply with the expanded AML/CTF obligations under the Tranche 2 reforms in 2026, it’s important to consider the impact on both your new and existing clients. Eng

  • FACT SHEET: AFSL Costs

    07 Jul 2025

    So, you think you’re ready to apply for your own AFSL.  What are the costs should you be prepared for? Preparing You can attempt to prepare and submit your own application for a licence. However,

  • FACT SHEET – Should I have my own AFSL?

    11 Feb 2024

    Does the licensing regime prevent you from being an authorised representative of an existing AFSL holder?  Are you getting tired of receiving bills from your licensee for the privilege of being a rep

  • Establishing an SMSF – 7 reasons to use a corporate trustee

    05 Oct 2019

    Like most professional advisers, we are strongly of the view that a self-managed superannuation fund ("SMSF") should have a corporate trustee. This article looks at the trustee requirements for SMSFs

  • Essentials of common Services Agreements in Financial Service

    25 Mar 2021

    Service agreements are common agreements in many industries, not just in the financial services industry.  A service agreement is a contract made between two parties that sets out the specific tasks

  • Essential things you should know about contracts

    03 Sep 2019

    Even if you engage lawyers to draft or review your contracts, there are some essential things you should know. 1. The contract document does not necessarily reflect the whole agreement Even if its h

  • Enhanced Whistleblower Protections: What does it mean for your Company?

    27 Jun 2019

    As of 1 July 2019, potential whistleblowers across Australia will enjoy an added layer of statutory protections.  The Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Act 2019 (Cth) (�

  • Enforceable Undertaking – What you need to know as a licensee

    17 Sep 2019

    An enforceable undertaking, or EU, is an undertaking offered to ASIC, by what we affectionately refer to as “the Pingee”, which sets out in writing certain actions that the Pingee is prepared to u

  • Employment in a COVID world

    03 Nov 2021

    The way we work, engage with clients, and manage our employment obligations has changed forever as a result of the arrangements which became necessary in order for professional businesses to continue

  • Efficiently, Honestly and Fairly – What does it mean?

    10 Jan 2025

    I’d like some “Efficiently, Honestly and Fairly” please, with a dash of “community expectations” thrown in.[1] I would like to start with what is, I think, an unarguable proposition. N