Business Support
Aligning your services with a AFS Licensee is more than just gaining an authority to advise. To remain effective and efficient, an advisory business must be run like a professional organisation. Having the resources to run the business elements sorted, you can focus on the activity you are most passionate about – helping clients.
It takes excellent advice skills to grow a solid financial advice business, but it also takes other skills, such as marketing, business development, and general business management. Our professional team will help you (and your professional team) build your business and skills.
Where you need it, we help you make plans tailored to the needs of your business and help implement these.
Where you need it, our Para-planning solutions, Implementation Team, Client Service Team and Administration Support simplify your client engagement, administration, platform and investment functions.
These are available at an hourly rate or on a per transaction basis.
Compliance Support
Licensee compliance goes hand in hand with the best client advice. Continental Wealth helps you create or refine a professional standards and risk management framework tailored to your business. This helps you improve compliance and your business processes.
Professional Development
Your role as a financial adviser is as much about education as it is about advice. We know you value your continuing professionalism. Accordingly, we offer:
- A targeted and straightforward continuing professional development program to your specific needs.
- Professional development days, webinars and online infrastructure.
- Compliance coaching plus coaching to maximize practice profitability
In-house Services Included
Mortgage and Finance Brokering
Compass Finance is our group wholly owned finance broker. Compass can assist with home lending, commercial and equipment finance and personal loans. Revenue generated from this activity can be disbursed on an agreed share basis with the adviser or reimbursed to the client.
Business transition assistance and support
We appreciate that transitioning to an alternate AFSL solution can be a considerable undertaking from a client and adviser experience. Our transitions team will assist this process, especially dealing with product providers.
Intranet incorporating adviser resources and tools, and workflow management system
Harnessing practice efficiency in service delivery is critical to successful business fulfillment. The hard work has been done for you – should you wish to use our internal services you will have access to work-flow systems to ease the process. In any event, our intranet is a resource for effective communication between parties.
In-house Services at Additional Cost
- comprehensive legal services: personal and business succession planning, family law, property conveyance, commercial matters, criminal law, migration support
- taxation and Accounting services: advice and structuring, tax compliance, bookkeeping
- wholesale investor solutions: specialised service solutions for HNW individuals and families including Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs), succession matters, investment access
- para-planning
- managed discretionary account
- Brisbane CBD corporate office space ranging from desk to office or meeting room. Casual or permanent rates are available. Corporate boardroom with full tech suite available for meetings with groups or individuals. Gold Coast office and meeting facilities available by arrangement.
- real estate and business brokering services and support. Where needed, we can assist with your client’s property or business sales.