Check a financial adviser

Type the adviser's name, or their adviser number. 42,341 advisers from ASIC's register — 15,140 of them currently authorised, the rest no longer.

Why this check is not optional

ASIC is unambiguous on its own consumer page: “if a financial adviser is not on the register, it means they cannot legally provide you personal advice on investments, superannuation and life insurance”.

So the first question is simply whether the person exists on this register — and the second, which the register answers and nothing lists, is whether their authorisation is still current. 64.2% of the advisers here have no current appointment.

Who actually stands behind your adviser

An adviser does not hold a licence. They are authorised by a licensee, and that licensee is itself controlled by other entities — often a bank or a listed group whose name never appears on the business card.

This register carries that chain, and this site follows it: 4,081 licensees, and for each of them the entities ASIC records as controlling it.

The two things the register records against an adviser

• Disciplinary action — 277 advisers have one recorded: bannings and disqualifications, enforceable undertakings, FSCP actions.
• Failure to meet continuing professional development — recorded against 466 advisers, with the year.

Both are facts the register publishes. Neither is a judgement, and this site adds none — read the entry at ASIC before drawing a conclusion.

The largest licensees

• AKUMIN FINANCIAL PLANNING PTY LIMITED — 3,464
• WYNDHAM VACATION CLUBS SOUTH PACIFIC LTD — 2,143
• CHARTER FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED — 1,769
• COUNT FINANCIAL LIMITED — 1,485
• COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED — 1,468
• A.C.N. 155 907 681 PTY LTD — 1,409
• NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED — 1,297
• GWM ADVISER SERVICES PTY LTD — 1,278
• WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION — 1,233
• SYNCHRON ADVICE PTY LTD — 1,152
• AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED — 1,048
• PROFESSIONAL INVESTMENT SERVICES PTY LTD — 974
• MORGANS FINANCIAL LIMITED — 940
• MILLENNIUM 3 FINANCIAL SERVICES PTY LTD — 917
• SECURITOR FINANCIAL GROUP PTY LIMITED — 856
• RI ADVICE GROUP PTY LTD — 829
• INTERPRAC FINANCIAL PLANNING PTY LTD — 812
• HILLROSS FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED — 791
• FINANCIAL WISDOM LIMITED — 756
• CONSULTUM FINANCIAL ADVISERS PTY LTD — 755

Where advisers are

• New South Wales — 5,772
• Victoria — 5,548
• Queensland — 4,650
• Western Australia — 1,920
• South Australia — 1,277
• Australian Capital Territory — 319
• Tasmania — 311
• Northern Territory — 45

All 203 licensees · 136 places · Banned and disqualified

Looking for financial advice?

Being on this register is the legal minimum to give personal advice — it is not a recommendation, and this site makes none. Tell us roughly what you need and where you are, and we will put the enquiry in front of advisers who are currently authorised. We give no advice ourselves, hold no product, and take no commission.

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