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Utilise our professional paraplanning services and do what you do best — spending time looking after your clients and growing your client base.

About Aptium Assist

Learn more about how Aptium Assist can help your business growth, efficiency, compliance and paraplanning needs

Aptium Assist developed from long-term planning success between principals, Philip Taaffe and Justin Vu.

Aptium Assist removes distraction and pitfalls for great financial planning businesses - increases an adviser’s client-time, and assures sustainable business growth. We provide busy financial planners around Australia with outsourced back office and paraplanning solutions. We work with like-minded companies who place the customer at the centre of everything they do.

Meet the Team

What we offer

Aptium Assist removes distraction and pitfalls, improves efficiency, increases client-time and assures sustainable business growth for financial advisers

Aptium Assist provides a highly efficient and compliant solution for advisers to meet their annual service obligations to clients – from pre-review material, database maintenance and advice document production. These outsourced business improvement services create real value for quality financial advisers and their clients. With a common culture and back office, advice businesses working with Aptium Assist are liberated to spend more time with clients, improve their client experience, make the most of opportunities to grow and exit their business with certainty.

  • New Clients
  • What tasks can we help with?

    • Review discovery file notes
    • Review Client Profile
    • Identify objectives
    • Consider compliance issues
    • Product advice document (SOA) for Client
    • Prepare FTAA case for implementation
  • Pre-Review
  • What tasks can we help with?

    • Preparation of annual Fixed Term Advice Agreement (FTAA)
    • Commence FTAA case on Xplan
    • WealthSolver Comparison with alternative products
    • Review of Approved Products List
    • Non-approved research ratings
    • Review Questionnaire with Xplan data
    • Identify missing client data prior to review meeting
  • Post-review
  • What tasks can we help with?

    • Uplift review data to Xplan
    • Review proposed strategies
    • Identify any shortfalls or compliance issues
    • Open annual FTAA case
  • Advice Documents
  • What tasks can we help with?

    • Review advice strategies outlined by adviser
    • Consider additional strategies for review with adviser
    • Consider compliance issues
    • Produce advice document (SOA/ROA) for Client
    • Complete FTAA case up to implementation
  • Ad Hoc Advice
  • What tasks can we help with?

    • Review file notes
    • Consider objectives
    • Consider compliance issues
    • Produce advice document (SOA/ROA) for Client
    • Complete FTAA case up to implementation

Pricing

Fixed annual pricing, paid monthly in arrears, is based on client numbers and complexity. Aptium Assist can also provide additional services with pricing to be agreed separately. Please contact us for a detailed discussion so we can understand your business and needs.

Our Process

o Aptium Assist allows advisers to spend time speaking with their clients, not struggling with compliance processes.
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Workflow management & processes

Setup workflow management system, Xplan processes and templates, understand your investment philosophy and current system and processes to identify immediate efficiency improvements

Our Process - Step 01
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Pre-Review

Prepare WealthSolver comparisons, research ratings, review questionnaire and compliant review process

Our Process - Step 02
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Advice Documentation

Review strategies, compliance and produce quality, efficient advice documentation to be shared with client

Our Process - Step 03
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Post review

Xplan data uplift, fixed term advice review cases and review cycle updated

Our Process - Step 04

Contact Us

We'd love to get in touch and we welcome any enquiry that you may have.

Get in Touch

Aptium Assist welcomes your enquiry. To book an appointment, or simply ask us a question, fill in your details and we'll be in touch soon!

Email

Our Office

  • Level 34, 60 Margaret Street, Sydney NSW 2000
  • PO Box R866, Royal Exchange NSW 1225
  • (02) 7200 5600
  • 8:30AM to 5:30PM

Meet the Team

Philip Taaffe

“As a financial adviser, every day contained change, distractions, threats and missed opportunities. Aptium Assist was developed to allow quality advisers to get back to focussing on what is important - more time with clients, avoiding pitfalls, all while growing your business."

Justin Vu

“Aptium Assist removes distraction and pitfalls for great financial planning businesses - increases an adviser’s client-time, and assures sustainable business growth. We provide busy financial planners around Australia with outsourced back office and paraplanning solutions. We work with like-minded companies who place the customer at the centre of everything they do.”

Get in Touch

Crothers & Associates welcome your enquiry. To book an appointment or simply ask us a question, fill in your details and we'll be in touch soon!

Email

Our Office

  • 10 Stanley Street, Wodonga VIC 3690
  • PO Box 521, Wodonga VIC 3690
  • (02) 6009 1699
  • 9:00AM to 5:00PM