Some key clients and relationships include:

• Steadfast Group, for whom we maintain all its Compliance and Human Resources Materials. 
• Underwriting Agencies Council, which we assist with regulatory matters. 
• AIOFP for whose members we are the preferred compliance partner. 
• Associated Advisory Practices for whom we assist intending members with licensing. 
• Financial Planning Association, with whom we are a proud Professional Services Partner. 
• Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, with whom we have joint ventured to produce a Mortgage Broker Gold Book. 
• ASIC – We are represented on the Business Advisory Committee to ASIC’s Licensing Division.

How Our Products and Services Help You

Our range of products and services enable you to choose whether to:

• Do It Yourself – Our manuals, tools and templates provide complete generic compliance and human resource management systems for AFS licenced businesses. View our Compliance and HR product list.
• DIY with Guidance – Our Helplines provide guidance when and in what areas you require. We currently offer:
  • Compliance Helpline for fast and reliable information about AFS licence, regulatory and compliance issues. Click here to read more.
  • HR/IR Helpline for fast and reliable information about HR management and industrial relation issues. Click here to read more.
  • Service Partner – When used with our products, our extensive range of consulting, audit and legal services provide expert and highly cost-effective solutions.  

The combination provides support in accordance with your needs and budget to assist you to maintain professional standards, comply with the AFS and Credit legislation and integrate best practice management into your business.

Our products and services are scalable and suitable for use by businesses of all sizes:

• AFS and Credit Licensees – Our products and services assist you to obtain or vary your licence and establish compliant and effective business processes. We can also manage your ongoing compliance and HR management obligations for you - freeing you up to work with your clients and build your business. 
• Individual Advisers – The Gold Book Business Operations Manual and our other products are indispensable guides to assist you to understand and fulfil your compliance obligations when advising clients. 
• Cluster, Dealer Groups and Aggregators – Our products assist your in-house teams keep up to date and provide a best practice benchmark for your compliance and HR management. Our technical capability supports you in dealing with complex issues as they arise.

SAVE TIME AND EFFORT
While the AFS and Credit laws define the required standards for compliance and professionalism, businesses still need detailed operating policies, procedures and tools and templates to assist to implement the standards.

Gold Seal’s generic set of customisable frameworks, guidelines and tools are an invaluable base for businesses developing your own policies and procedures. They significantly reduce the development and maintenance work effort and assist to ensure that all legal and practice requirements are met. If you have already developed your own procedures, our systems provide a useful benchmark and a ready source of update and improvement material.

How are we different?

• Specialist Expertise – Our Technical Team are all practicing regulatory lawyers and our consultants are drawn from the industries that we serve. 
• You Own the Program – All our products are provided in soft copy, and can be customised for your business. And if we part company, you keep everything we have provided to you. 
• Tailored Service – We tailor our services to your needs – so you’re not paying for something you don’t use. 
• 1 Months Cancellation – If you’re not happy with our service, you can cancel with only one month’s notice. 
• Backed by Contract – In the unlikely event that we make a mistake, we hold PI insurance coverage and our liability is not limited to the amount you paid us.

WHY CHOOSE GOLD SEAL?
Our expert Compliance and HR/IR Services offer:

• More free time to focus on core business and service your clients, safe in the knowledge that Gold Seal is looking after your compliance, professional risk management and HR/IR issues. 
• With our in-house legal team, we can offer cost effective legal services to you. 
• Comprehensive understanding of your business issues with practising lawyers and consultants who have financial services industry backgrounds. 
• Regular updates on changes in legislation to help you stay informed.

We give you practical processes to follow and help you to implement them in your business. Our integrated solutions assist to improve your efficiency and streamline your operations.

Your success is our success. We established our leadership position by assisting beyond expectation. In the future our success will be dependent on yours - which means giving you much more than just advice. 

Try us – you’ll be surprised at the difference!