{
 "dataset": "Australian online stockbrokers",
 "source": "Each broker's own pricing page, Financial Services Guide and terms (brokerage, CHESS sponsorship or custody, execution and clearing); ASIC's Australian Financial Services Licensee register on data.gov.au (licence, ABN, authorisations)",
 "licence_note": "Brokerage a broker charges in US dollars is converted at the Reserve Bank of Australia's 4pm AUD/USD rate (CC BY 4.0, source: Reserve Bank of Australia). The licence fields are from ASIC's AFS Licensee dataset on data.gov.au, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. Brokerage, holding model, execution and clearing are facts read from each broker's own published pages, and every one carries the URL and the sentence it was read from. Brokerage is the standard online rate for one ASX trade; it changes without notice and some brokers price differently for frequent traders, other settlement accounts or phone orders. This is reference data, not advice about which broker to use.",
 "broker": {
  "slug": "investsmart",
  "name": "InvestSMART",
  "product": null,
  "website": "https://www.investsmart.com.au/",
  "category": "status_unclear",
  "checked": "2026-10-15",
  "status_note": "Unclear. The site links a share trading login for existing clients but has no public sign-up or pricing, and the FSG covers only managed accounts, ETFs and subscriptions.",
  "successor_slug": null,
  "legal_entity": "InvestSMART Financial Services Pty Ltd",
  "entity_note": null,
  "authorised_representative_of": null,
  "authorised_representative_no": null,
  "afsl": "226435",
  "abn": "70089038531",
  "acn": null,
  "holding": null,
  "holding_note": null,
  "asx_coverage": null,
  "asx_coverage_note": null,
  "execution_participant": null,
  "clearing_participant": null,
  "international_shares": null,
  "brokerage": null,
  "account_fee": null,
  "expected": null,
  "quotes": {},
  "sources": [
   "https://cdn-blob.investsmart.com.au/documents/IS_FSG.pdf",
   "https://www.investsmart.com.au/shares/trading-overview"
  ],
  "documents": [
   {
    "title": "Financial Services Guide",
    "url": "https://cdn-blob.investsmart.com.au/documents/IS_FSG.pdf"
   },
   {
    "title": "Trading overview",
    "url": "https://www.investsmart.com.au/shares/trading-overview"
   }
  ],
  "curation_notes": "Probably a legacy service for existing clients. Its managed-account sell brokerage (\"the greater of $4.40 or 0.044% per trade\") is portfolio brokerage, not self-directed trading.",
  "licence": {
   "afsl": "226435",
   "name": "INVESTSMART FINANCIAL SERVICES PTY LTD",
   "abn": "70089038531",
   "acn": null,
   "licensed_since": "2003-04-11",
   "locality": "Sydney NSW 2000",
   "authorisations": {
    "advice_securities": [
     "retail"
    ],
    "deal_securities_for_clients": [
     "retail"
    ]
   },
   "source": {
    "dataset": "ASIC AFS Licensee dataset",
    "url": "https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/asic-afs-licensee",
    "release": "https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ab7eddce-84df-4098-bc8f-500d0d9776d1/resource/d98a113d-6b50-40e6-b65f-2612efc877f4/download/afs_lic_202611.csv",
    "last_modified": "2026-11-11T20:51:07.739275",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia"
   },
   "disagreements": []
  },
  "category_label": "Status unclear",
  "holding_label": null,
  "prices": null,
  "prices_native": null,
  "fx": null,
  "plans": [],
  "etf_brokerage": null,
  "etf_prices": null,
  "etf_sell_prices": null,
  "page": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/investsmart/",
  "json": "https://deepalmanac.com/au/finance/stockbrokers/v1/brokers/investsmart.json"
 }
}