Working your way through the maze of financial services laws can be difficult and frustrating. Making sure that you've covered off on all of the issues in the various Acts, Regulations, Policy Statements, Class Orders and ASIC guidelines is a challenge. That's why Minter Ellison has created the Minter Ellison Disclosure Toolkits, to make your job a little easier when it comes to preparing:

• Product Disclosure Statements
• Supplementary short form Product Disclosure Statements
• Exit Statements
• Periodic Statements
• Fund Reports
• Transaction Confirmations
• Supplementary Financial Services Guides
• Statements of Advice
• Incorporation by reference material
• advertising and other publications.

Our Disclosure Toolkits focus on the disclosure requirements (more than 500 content requirements) for preparing key disclosure documents under the FSR regime. We understand that your business may focus on certain financial products, so we have designed our Toolkits for individual financial products. We have developed a separate Toolkit for the following products:

• Superannuation
• Managed investment schemes
• Life investment
• Life risk
• General insurance.

We have also developed the Distribution Disclosure Toolkit. This Toolkit helps with your disclosure requirements for product distribution and includes a checklist for preparing a Financial Services Guide and for a Statement of Advice, as well as checklists for advertising of financial products. This toolkit is not specific to a particular financial product and can be used across all financial services.

The electronic checklists are a practical tool for checking that your key disclosure documents comply with the requirements. Each checklist is prepared in an electronic tick-a-box format to assist in your due diligence process. The checklists are also a great knowledge management tool for product issuers and others preparing disclosure documents, because they contain links to the relevant source materials.

New version released

Change is a constant feature of FSR – which makes keeping up to date a challenge. Since our last release of the Minter Ellison Disclosure Toolkits, the Corporations Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 10) (Cth) (incorporation by reference) have come into effect. These, and other changes, will impact on how you prepare your key disclosure documents and are detailed in Version 4.0 of the Minter Ellison Disclosure Toolkits.

The version 4.0 Disclosure Toolkits include new checklists, including the Promotional material checklist and Incorporated by reference material checklist. The new checklists are designed to help you with your disclosure requirements when it comes to issuing promotional material in relation to financial products and material incorporated by reference into Product Disclosure Statements.

For pricing details and to order a copy of our Disclosure Toolkit, complete and return our Disclosure Toolkit request form. Discounts apply for purchasers of Version 3.