ABOUT US
Built by experienced industry professionals, Finchley & Kent remains compliance-centric whilst offering the tools to deliver advice in a timely fashion, and provide genuine value through outstanding support and superior quality services.
Being one of Australia’s leading boutique dealer groups, we offer professional, tailored solutions to our network of financial advisers to help manage risk and overcome the day-to-day challenges of running a successful financial planning practice.
WHY CHOOSE FINCHLEY & KENT?
EXPERTISE
Finchley & Kent's directors' experience at the coal face means they have experienced what you are experiencing.
FREEDOM
We are privately owned, removing any institutional influence and creating an environment to provide conflict-free advice.
COMPLIANT
The new regulation for financial advice requires non conflicted and robust compliance framework. Finchley & Kent have the best.
EXTENSIVE
An extensive list of products and platforms are available to assist you in the provision of advice.
EFFICIENT
New platforms have been developed to reduce, time, effort and cost of compliance, whilst improving the quality of delivery.
OUR SERVICES
Approved Product List
We select products based on clients’ best interest, which is why we offer a comprehensive and well-researched approved product list which has been developed in conjunction with the research houses and market intelligence. The investment committee meets once a quarter to ensure relevance and quality are maintained.
Audit Services
We take compliance very seriously and always support you and keep you safe. That’s why each Authorised Representative will receive an annual compliance audit from the external compliance provider.
Virtual Administration
Our State-of-the-art back-office solution is available for product research and administration, documents and reports preparation, CRM and office management, ensuring your practice delivers advice efficiently and effectively.
Professional Development
We are dedicated to supporting you grow. To help our advisers stay up to date with the latest regulatory and legislative developments we host 2 Professional Development Days per year to give you an opportunity to maintain your knowledge and skills.
Mortgage Broking
Our partnership with a leading Australian mortgage aggregator enables Advisers to be an Authorised Credit Representative under their credit licence.
Compliance Framework
Compliance will always be a big part of our industry, and a huge part of our service offering. Our meticulously selected professional provider together with our expert team have a deep understanding of the rules and regulations and provide powerful tools and frameworks to ensure you deliver quality advice in the best interest of your clients.
Research
We recognise that one research house cannot be all things to all practices and use a variety of top-rated independent research providers to ensure ongoing regular analysis of markets and investment options. So, our advisers and their clients can benefit from the extensive range of financial products that have been researched, approved and always remain up-to-date.
Paraplanning
To keep your practice performing optimally we offer an extensive paraplanning service through an associated company or an approved provider so you can deliver exceptional outcomes for your clients.
CPD Online Study
We provide each Adviser access to relevant training programs with Kaplan Professional. This will enable each Adviser to maintain their own personalised ongoing training register to ensure that continuing education requirements are met.
Revenue Payment
We use PayLogic to provide full brokerage and commission payment and tracking which will be paid to Adviser/Practices twice monthly.
We provide outstanding support services for financial advisers that develop their advice offering with the aim to enable their clients to make sound decisions by balancing their needs and wants, and achieving their financial goals.
When you become a part of the Finchley & Kent network, you will gain access to our state-of-the-art technology solutions, full back-office support, financial expert advice, our professional compliance team, and all the resources necessary to run a successful financial planning practice.
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REVIEWS & TESTIMONIALS
“Thank you both for all your work transitioning JSK to Finchley & Kent, it has been a very positive move for us.”
“I’ve been an adviser in your dealer group for over a year now, and just wanted to give you some feedback as to how I’ve found it to be so far – onboarding was seamless and problem free, your admin process, including Christian’s professional service has been of a high standard throughout, commissions have been spot on, my first audit of last week was performed effortlessly due to your CRM, and the result was clear and precise and all made sense, and all in all it’s been a really good experience – thank you, and all the best to you and your staff.”
“While the last few months have been a struggle for all, it has been a pleasure to be associated with Finchley & Kent. The team are only as good as their leader and Finchley & Kent are in good hands with Sam at the helm.”
“My husband commented that what a difference in me since working with you since the old AMP days. I am so grateful and happy to be working with you, thanks again”
“One of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’ve been part of many licensees in nearly 30 years and Finchley & Kent is by far the best I’ve ever worked with. I would encourage Anyone considering their licensing option to have a chat with Sam.”