Vestry for Advisers

Vestry cannot advise —
by architecture.

Built to need advisers. Every template Vestry writes ends at a professional’s desk.

Vestry is the Family Governance Operating System for principals managing $1M–$50M and SMSF trustees. It closes the governance gaps you flag in every annual review — and puts your desk at the end of every document it helps a client draft.

✦ Practice Programme · Complimentary adviser account · Co-branded client onboarding · No referral fee

Available to practices across Australia · Singapore · Hong Kong · United States

Your Complimentary Account

Use it before you recommend it.

Every verified Practice Programme member receives a complimentary personal account — at no cost. Experience the platform firsthand before your clients do. Understand exactly what you are recommending.

💡 Use it as a live demo tool

Open your Vestry account in a client meeting and walk them through the platform in real time. Show the SMSF strategy builder to a trustee. Show the thesis management framework to a principal. Let the client see exactly what they are getting — before they commit to a subscription.

  • Full platform access — all six modules
  • Use it for your own wealth management
  • Demonstrate it to clients in real time
  • No referral fee — no conflicted remuneration
  • Complimentary for the duration of the programme
Your Practice Branding

Your clients know you introduced it.

Clients you introduce to Vestry are onboarded with a co-branded welcome that acknowledges your practice as the introducing adviser. Your name is associated with giving them institutional-grade governance infrastructure. That is relationship capital — not a commission.

  • Co-branded client onboarding experience
  • "Introduced by [Your Practice]" in the welcome flow
  • Your clients associate you with the upgrade
  • Strengthens your client relationships
  • No compliance issues — no financial incentive

The Vestry Practice Programme is available to SMSF specialists, financial planners, estate planning lawyers, private client advisers, and boutique accounting principals. Request a briefing to join →

Both are completely free.

The Practice Programme membership is free. Your complimentary Vestry account is free. There is no listing fee, no referral fee, and no ongoing cost to you as an adviser. Your clients pay their own Vestry subscription — you pay nothing. Ever.

The conversation you keep having.

Every adviser in the family office and SMSF space has a version of this.

SMSF Specialist Accountant

"I keep telling my SMSF clients they need to review their investment strategy. Half of them have the same one-page document we set up in 2018. And nobody knows when their BDBN expires."

Private Client Adviser

"My clients have strong conviction in their positions but no structured framework for monitoring them. They arrive at our quarterly meeting and we start from scratch every time. There is no institutional memory between meetings."

Estate Planning Lawyer

"I keep recommending family constitutions and succession frameworks. Most clients agree it is important. Almost none have done it. There is no tool that makes it structured and completable without a six-figure legal engagement."

Private Banker / Wealth Manager

"My clients are managing wealth across multiple entities, jurisdictions, and currencies. Getting a consolidated picture takes them half a day. They make decisions without the full picture in front of them."

Vestry closes all of these gaps. For your clients. Between your meetings.

Is Vestry right for your practice?

Six adviser profiles. If you recognise yours — Vestry is built for your clients.

SMSF Channel

SMSF Specialist Accountant

  • You have 50–200+ active SMSF clients
  • You flag investment strategy compliance in annual reviews
  • You know BDBN expiry is a common governance gap
  • You want to add value between annual review cycles
  • You are looking for a tool that is complementary — not competitive

"Vestry builds a structured investment strategy template from the trustee's own inputs — taken to you for review — and alerts them 90 days before their BDBN lapses. You flag the problem in the annual review. Vestry gets it onto your desk between meetings."

SMSF Channel

Financial Planner with SMSF Authorisation

  • You advise SMSF trustees on strategy and compliance
  • You manage investment strategies across multiple funds
  • You want clients to engage actively with their IPS between meetings
  • You need clients to arrive with a current picture — not reconstruct it
  • You are looking for a governance layer that supports your SOA

"A client who arrives at your meeting with a documented IPS, a current pillar check, and their disconfirmers already registered is a better adviser conversation — every time."

SMSF Channel

SMSF Administrator

  • You manage fund administration for SMSF trustees
  • You track compliance obligations across your client base
  • You want a governance tool that complements — not duplicates — your services
  • You see the investment strategy and BDBN gaps across your client portfolio

"Vestry handles the governance and investment discipline layer. You handle the compliance and administration layer. Together, your clients have the complete picture."

Private Wealth Channel

Private Client Adviser / Private Banker

  • You serve clients managing $1M–$50M across multiple entities
  • Your clients hold concentrated positions with no formal thesis framework
  • You want clients to engage with their investment framework between meetings
  • You manage clients across AU, SG, HK, or US jurisdictions
  • You want a tool that supports — not competes with — your advisory relationship

"A client with a documented Investment Policy Statement, a current thesis check, and a pre-committed disconfirmer framework makes your advisory conversation more structured, more accountable, and more valuable."

Private Wealth Channel

Estate Planning Lawyer / Succession Specialist

  • You advise on family constitutions, succession frameworks, and estate plans
  • Clients agree governance is important — few have done it
  • You want a tool that makes governance structured and completable
  • Your documents need a governance framework to sit within
  • You want clients to arrive with the framework already started

"Vestry's governance modules generate a Family Constitution framework and IPS from the principal's own inputs — not legal advice, but the structured starting point that makes your engagement more productive and more affordable for the client."

Private Wealth Channel

Boutique Accounting Principal / HNW Tax Adviser

  • You serve HNW clients with complex structures — trusts, companies, SMSFs
  • Your clients make investment decisions without a formal governance framework
  • You want a tool that adds value across the client relationship — not just at tax time
  • You are looking for a platform that positions your practice as more than compliance

"Vestry gives your HNW clients the governance infrastructure that was previously only available to family offices ten times larger — and positions your practice as the adviser who made it available to them."

The gaps Vestry closes for your clients.

The governance problems you keep flagging — now solvable between meetings.

Investment strategy that exists on paper but not in practice

Vestry's IPS builder generates a documented, current investment strategy from the client's own inputs — reviewed against their stated thesis and disconfirmers. For SMSF trustees, the template is structured around the matters s52(2)(f) requires trustees to address — completed by the trustee, reviewed and adopted with their professional adviser.

BDBN that may have lapsed without anyone knowing

Vestry tracks the expiry date of the client's Binding Death Benefit Nomination and alerts them 90 days before it lapses. A lapsed BDBN means the trustee decides who receives the death benefit — not the Will. One alert prevents one of the most common estate planning failures.

No consolidated view across entities and assets

Vestry consolidates wealth across multiple entities, asset classes, and jurisdictions into a single dashboard. Clients arrive at your meeting with a real number — not a reconstruction from six different statements.

Investment positions held on conviction with no framework

Vestry's research module gives clients a structured thesis management framework — pillar classification, disconfirmer checks, anti-anchoring questions. Clients monitor their own positions with discipline between your meetings.

Regulatory changes discovered after a decision was made

Vestry monitors ATO, ASIC, APRA, MAS, HKMA, and SEC regulatory developments relevant to the client's jurisdiction profile — surfaced before decisions, not discovered at the next meeting.

Family constitution and succession plan perpetually deferred

Vestry's governance module provides a guided Family Constitution and succession planning framework — structured, completable, and designed to be taken to the estate planning lawyer and financial adviser as a starting point, not a finished product.

How it works for your practice.

Three steps. No disruption to your existing workflow.

01

You identify clients who would benefit

SMSF trustees whose investment strategy has not been reviewed. Family office principals with concentrated positions and no formal governance framework. Clients approaching transition — business exit, retirement, inheritance — who need succession planning infrastructure. These are the clients Vestry is built for.

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You introduce Vestry as a governance tool

Request a practice briefing through this page. We will walk you through the platform and provide materials you can share with clients. You introduce Vestry as a governance infrastructure tool — the layer that makes your client more structured, arrives at your desk for review, and makes your advice conversations more productive.

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Your clients arrive at meetings with better infrastructure

A client using Vestry arrives at your meeting with a documented IPS, a current thesis check, a consolidated wealth picture, and their governance framework already started. You focus on judgement, strategy, and advice — not reconstruction. The conversation starts at a higher level every time.

Built by someone who needed it.

Not a fintech startup writing for a market it reads about. A practitioner who manages the same problems.

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33 years in technology

Including 18 years at Microsoft as Data Leader for Australia and New Zealand. The platform is built on a practitioner's understanding of what principals and trustees actually need — not what the software industry assumes they need.

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12 years managing the Pineda Family Office

Active portfolio management since 2014. Every Vestry feature is pressure-tested against the real needs of a principal managing their own wealth — across commodities, APAC equities, and AI-themed assets — before it reaches your clients.

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Designed against the AFSL boundary

Every module is designed to stay outside the financial product advice boundary. Vestry presents evidence and frameworks. It does not recommend or signal — every template it produces is completed with the client's own qualified advisers. The platform operates under a published perimeter framework and remains under specialist regulatory review before accepting paying subscribers.

Request a Practice Briefing

We will walk you through the platform and discuss how it fits your client base. No obligation.

Open to accountants, financial advisers, solicitors and other professionals serving private wealth clients — credentials verified against public professional registers before access. · We respond within two business days · Vestry is not a financial advice provider

Common Questions

Asked often — answered plainly.

Does Vestry provide financial or investment advice?

No. Vestry records, structures, retrieves and reminds — it never recommends, by architecture. Every document it drafts is a labelled template that ends at a qualified professional’s desk.

Is Vestry an adviser directory or referral service?

No. Vestry does not operate an adviser directory, does not refer clients to advisers, and does not accept referral fees or commissions. Advisers pay nothing and are paid nothing — participation, not remuneration. Clients connect their own existing professionals.

Does Vestry manage SMSF investment strategies?

No. Vestry monitors review dates and keeps the trustee’s own documents and decisions on the record. Investment strategy decisions remain with trustees and their licensed advisers.