Example · PDF, 12 pages
Example Statement of Advice
A specimen Statement of Advice in a firm template, for fictional clients. Read it the way your licensee would.
Written for advisers, paraplanners and licensee compliance teams.
What you will take away
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A complete SoA structure: scope of advice, the clients’ personal situation, goals, risk profile, an integrated strategy across five areas, and each recommendation with the reasoning, the alternatives considered, the costs and the risks.
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Fees and commissions disclosed in full, including an insurance commission disclosure and a no-commission alternative.
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Technical content checked against the rules as at September 2026, including carry-forward concessional contributions, Division 293 and APRA’s limits on income protection benefits.
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An honest label: the licensee, adviser, clients and figures are fictional, and it is a specimen of the format, not raw product output.
Inside the specimen
- About this document and scope of advice
- Your personal situation
- Your goals and objectives, and risk profile
- Our recommended strategy
- Recommendations: superannuation, investment, insurance, debt and education, estate planning
- Fees and costs, including commission disclosure
- Risks and disadvantages
- Authority to proceed
Questions it answers
- Is this real output from BackPro?
- No. It is an illustrative specimen prepared by BackPro to show what a finished Statement of Advice looks like when it is drafted into a firm’s template. In the product, a draft like this is produced from the client’s file in your own template, checked before anyone reads it, and then reviewed and signed off by the adviser.
- Are the clients and the licensee real?
- No. The licensee, adviser, clients, products and figures are fictional, and every identifier is marked as a specimen.
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