As a full service licensee, we offer a range of authorisations to suit your level of skill and qualifications so that you can focus on providing quality financial advice to your clients.

Full authorisation

A full authorisation allows you to provide comprehensive financial planning advice in the following areas:

• Superannuation
• Securities
• Simple managed investment schemes
• Risk insurance
• Basic deposit products
• Class of product advice
• Product recommendations.

Limited / Risk specialist authorisation

These authorisations allow you to provide personal advice on a limited range of products and services and in line with your business requirements. Our regional managers can work with you to determine the most suitable option.

SMSF specialist authorisation

If you are an accountant, an SMSF specialist authorisation allows you to provide advice on self-managed superannuation funds without needing to become a financial adviser. It allows you to provide general advice in the following areas:

• Superannuation - recommendations that consider a client’s existing super fund in order to establish an SMSF, provision of advice on contributions or pensions and set-up/establishment of an SMSF.
• Basic deposit products eg term deposits, online savings accounts, first home savers accounts.
• Class of product advice on super, risk insurance, securities, managed investment schemes.

Our regional managers are your key point of contact and liaise with different divisions within our team to ensure that you utilise our full service offering.

As experts in business planning, they provide you with the tools to enhance your business and generate profits. Whether that's helping you build referral networks, develop your client value proposition or articulate your value, our regional managers provide holistic solutions and practical advice.

We have developed a unique software solution in Xplan that gives you access to your client information as well as a range of tools, such as platform data feeds, advice templates, marketing collateral, approved product lists and model portfolios.

These tools have been designed to not only help you streamline your process and reduce your costs, but also ease the burden of administration so that you can concentrate on servicing your clients.

Our marketing team will work directly with you to provide an end-to-end tailored marketing service that can help you increase your client base, cross sell to your existing clients or increase brand awareness in your local area.

We can help with all aspects of marketing your practice, including artwork development and printing.

You'll have access to a range of templates that can be tailored to your branding and utilised across all your communication channels.

The research team delivers timely analysis and insights into investments, markets and the economy. This allows you to provide information that's tailored to your clients' individual circumstances and attitude towards risk.

The model portfolios are tailored investment recommendations suitable for all client risk profiles and are professionally researched and monitored by an experienced team.

Our professional development program has been designed to ensure you meet your continuing professional development (CPD) requirements each year. The training sessions cover all areas of financial advice, practice management and technical solutions and we maintain your CPD requirements via Kaplan Ontrack.

Our program includes an annual conference, professional development twice a year as well as research and risk workshops and masterclasses.

The Compliance and Professional Standards (CAPS) team ensures that your practice complies with the latest industry regulations and reforms.

The core services include:

• annual practice audits to ensure you meet your standard regulatory requirements
• communications review
• access to the team to discuss any compliance issues
• monthly compliance newsletter
• regular training
• SoA vetting as required.

Through IOOF's highly-regarded TechConnect team, you will have access to resources to help you keep your industry knowledge up-to-date and implement new technical strategies for your clients.

Through the TechConnect team, you will have access to the following services:

• Web and telephone support – access to highly qualified technical experts through a dedicated number.
• Interactive learning - a range of online sessions and seminars provide updates on current issues, trends and new developments, and how these impact the strategies you recommend to your clients.
• Strategy campaigns and tools - a range of technical campaigns to keep you up-to-date with the latest financial strategies. These include worked examples, the latest legislative details, sample client flyers and strategy booklets across a wide range of topics.
• Email updates – Monthly technical bulletins and adhoc alerts covering Government announcements and reports delivered straight to your inbox.

Our paraplanning service aims to deliver high quality, compliant Statement of Advice (SoA) documents in a timely manner. This may be particularly useful if you don't have an in-house paraplanner or if you have an overflow of paraplanning work. Our Consultum SoA templates are utilised through this service.

Commpay is a revenue and business management reporting system that is linked to Xplan and offers you a range of features so that you can:

• download revenue statements and view your account balances in real time
• create tax invoices for your clients
• run reports on business performance, profitability and revenue sources
• generate fee disclosure statements for your clients.