repX

repX is more than just an AR Network.

We provide essential services like licensing, compliance, and training, with our true distinction in our financial focus ,offering financial reporting, expert advice, and access to capital to help you run your broker

03/09/2026

Welcome to the network, Allan Sudale and Magnus Risk Group.

Allan's spent nearly two decades in insurance, but he's also been a publican, and owned and operated a pub, restaurant and café.

So when it comes to hospitality risk (pubs, clubs, hotels, cafés, small bars), he's lived the operational side, not only placed it.

Welcome to repX, Allan.

01/09/2026

Supportive. Collaborative. Empowering.

Almost anyone can put words like these on a slide about themselves. Leadership posts are full of them, and claiming them is free.

So we skipped the part where we ask Ange to describe her own leadership and went straight to people who have worked with her over the years. One word each, sent by text, no warning, no shortlist.

Eight came back. Accountable. Transparent. Supportive. Reliable. Encouraging. Collaborative. Empowering. Inspiring.

Then a ninth arrived over the weekend. Informed. Some answers take a few extra days, and we are counting it.

When leadership is working, you rarely need to ask. It shows in how a team runs when she's away, and in people who still answer a random text asking about her, years on, when being kind gets them nothing.

Ange runs the day to day at repX, so for the ARs in our network she's often the person on the other end. We could write a few paragraphs about what she's like to work with. The nine words probably cover it better than we would.

And yes, she kept the texts.

30/08/2026

The question worth asking is the early one.

Not the one after the wording has gone out. Not the one after a client has already been told something. The one that starts with "before I send this, can you look at it."

Compliance has a reputation for being the function that says no. Much of what it involves is helping someone say the same thing in a way that holds up.

An AR operating under repX's AFSL is not carrying that alone. The framework sits at licensee level, and the whole point of it is to be used early rather than referred to after the fact.

If you are weighing up an AR arrangement anywhere, that is a fair thing to test in a first conversation. Ask how quickly you can get an answer, and who it comes from.

27/08/2026

An AR arrangement is sometimes only as good as the people on the other end of it. A tough sentence but hear us out.

At repX that is a small group, and in a normal week you deal with the same few people.

Ange on insurers, broking, clients, and “how am I tracking?”
Chloe on the numbers, including the awkward ones.
Suzanne on compliance, early, while something is still a question rather than a problem.

The amazing support team on the day to day questions.
Small team, direct lines. Deliberate, not incidental. The scale of a network is easy to describe.

What shapes your week is how many steps sit between you and an answer, and we want those steps to be as straightforward as possible.

25/08/2026

Behind repX is a team with 80+ years of combined insurance experience.

Max. Chloe. Ange. Suzanne.

A CEO who understands why you do what you do, and how to get the most out of your business.
A CFO focused on innovation and ex*****on to improve your numbers.
A GM with 30+ years of Insurance, many of which were mentoring Brokers and ARs.
A Compliance Manager who turns compliance into a competitive advantage, not a headache.

This is who’s in your corner when you join repX.

23/08/2026

Consultation on the draft revised Insurance Brokers Code of Practice closed on 7 August 2026.

NIBA has identified 1 January 2027 as the commencement target, but the commencement date has not yet been confirmed. Nothing is settled until the final Code is released.

What is drafted is clear enough to plan around. Three changes worth reading now.

Ask what the broker is being paid and the answer becomes a dollar figure. It reaches retail, wholesale, strata and business clients alike, and it does not turn on the size of the account or the type of policy.

At least 28 days before renewal, the client hears from you. The point is room to look at the cover properly rather than sign off on it in a hurry.

Keeping records stops being something a careful practice does by habit and becomes something the Code requires.

Two others sit alongside them. On strata, remuneration disclosure happens without anyone asking for it, residential or commercial, and it goes to the owners corporation even where they would not be classed as a retail client. And conflicts of interest obligations are pulled into line with ASIC's Regulatory Guide 181, which was itself reissued in December 2025 for the first time since 2004.

Much of this is already how a careful practice runs. What would change is the extent to which the process, timing and evidence become express Code requirements.

If your renewal process currently starts inside 28 days, that is the first thing to redraw.

20/08/2026

Seven firms reviewed. 1,088 strata representatives covered. Nine breach determinations.

The findings were published on 30 June 2026. The recurring failure was surprisingly basic: drafting.

All seven failed the requirement for representative agreements to contain specific Code commitments. Broad clauses requiring compliance with relevant law were not enough. The Code expects the specifics written into the agreement itself: report a potential breach inside five days, pass a breach related complaint on straight away.

Generic wording is not a supervision framework. If the agreement does not say what a representative must do and by when, there is nothing concrete to monitor against, and nothing to hold anyone to when it goes wrong.

Two firms were referred to ASIC over conflict management. In two others, covering 498 representatives between them, the agreements required strata managers to promote and protect only the firm's interests, creating an obvious tension with the strata manager's obligations to the owners corporation.

Worth opening your own representative agreement and reading it as a monitoring document rather than a legal formality. What does it actually require someone to do, and by when?

Source, for anyone who wants the detail:
insuranceNEWS.com.au, "Compliance review finds strata broking breaches", 30 June 2026.

18/08/2026

Cashflow in a new practice is usually a timing problem before it is a revenue problem.

The work is done. The business is placed. The income exists on paper. And it arrives on a cycle you do not control. That gap is where new practices can get uncomfortable, and it often has very little to do with how well anyone is doing their job.

Two things in the repX agreement speak to it directly.

Payments run weekly. A shorter cycle means less guessing about what lands when.

The notice period is three months. You are not signing into something you cannot step out of.

Neither of those is a promise about what a practice earns. They are terms, they are written down, and you can read them before you sign anything.

If you are modelling a move, model the timing with the same care you give the revenue. It is the part many people underestimate.

13/08/2026

No one becomes an authorised representative to have less on their plate.

You still own the client relationships. You still own the outcomes. You still own the commercial calls that decide how your practice grows. None of that moves.

What changes is what sits underneath you. The admin, the compliance reporting, the back-office grind that fills a day without adding a dollar: that is the part a network should carry. The job itself is not getting simpler. Pricing, regulatory expectations, and technology are all shifting at once, and that lands on the adviser.

So the honest question is not whether you will have less to do. You will not. It is whether the work you keep is the work that actually grows your practice.

11/08/2026

repX may not be the right fit for every authorised representative, and we designed it that way.

A working AR relationship runs on alignment: how you treat client outcomes, how you structure your practice, and how seriously you take your compliance obligations. Get those wrong and no amount of support from a licensee will fix it.

So we are deliberate about fit. If you want a quiet licence to sit under, plenty of networks will take you. If you want to build a practice you could one day sell as an asset, this network is built for that.

Alignment first tends to make everything after it easier.

Address

177 Wellington Road, East Brisbane QLD 4169
Brisbane, QLD
4196

Telephone

+611300306049

Website

https://repx.au/

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