Financial advisers and authorised representatives
As an Australian financial services (AFS) licensee, you can appoint financial advisers and authorised representatives to your AFS licence. Financial advisers must also be registered with ASIC before they can provide personal advice to retail clients on relevant financial products.
You can update the details of your financial advisers and authorised representatives online, including their authorisations, qualifications and address.
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This page contains:
- Authorised representative
- Financial adviser
- User guides for financial advisers and authorised representatives
Authorised representative
As an AFS licensee, you can appoint an authorised representative to:
- provide specified financial services, and/or
- appoint other authorised representatives on your behalf.
For more information, see Information Sheet 91 Who can be an authorised representative of an AFS licensee (INFO 91).
Financial adviser
As an AFS licensee, you must notify ASIC when you authorise a financial adviser, provisional financial adviser or time-share adviser under your AFS licence.
User guides for financial advisers and authorised representatives
Our user guides provide step-by-step instructions for financial advisers and authorised representatives completing transactions in ASIC Connect.
User guides
Signing up and using ASIC Connect
- How to sign up for an ASIC Connect account and link your licence(s) (PDF 1.1MB)
- How to sign up for an ASIC Connect account and link authorised representatives (PDF 1.1MB)
Appoint an authorised representative and/or adviser
- How to appoint authorised representatives (PDF 2.04MB)
- How to appoint a financial adviser (PDF 1.4MB)
- How to appoint a provisional financial adviser (PDF 1.4MB)
- How to appoint a time-share adviser (PDF 1.3MB)
Register a financial adviser
- Dow to register financial advisers (including time-share advisers) with ASIC (PDF 2.6 MB) (see AFS licensees)
Update details of an authorised representative and/or adviser
- How to update authorised representative details (PDF 1.7MB)
- How to maintain a financial adviser's details (PDF 1MB)
- How to maintain a provisional financial adviser's details (1.2MB)
- How to maintain a time-share adviser's details PDF (880KB)
- How to request a correction to authorised representative and financial adviser details (PDF 1.2MB)