ASIC AFSL Growth & Adviser Movement Signals

Produces deterministic, licence-level commercial signals from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) open registers published on data.gov.au. One Dataset item represents one Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) with at least one enabled signal.

Signals

• ADVISERS_GAINED: an ASIC Financial Adviser appointment start date occurred in the inclusive signal window.
• ADVISERS_LOST: an appointment end date occurred in the inclusive signal window.
• NEW_LICENSEE_COMMENCED: the AFS licence start date occurred in the inclusive signal window.

These are register appointment movements, not verified employee headcount. An adviser may both join and leave during the same window. The Actor exposes no adviser names or adviser numbers; only AFSL-level aggregate counts are returned.

Data and timing

The Actor uses only the current ASIC Financial Advisers Dataset and ASIC Australian Financial Services Licensee Dataset packages published on data.gov.au. Their point-in-time snapshots are normally updated weekly. It resolves the current downloadable resources from data.gov.au package metadata at runtime and does not scrape individual ASIC webpages.

Although the resources are described as CSV, ASIC documents TAB-delimited content. The Actor detects TAB from each header and accepts comma-separated content only as a compatibility fallback. Required headers are validated before processing.

By default, the window covers the most recent 30 calendar days relative to the earlier official source snapshot date. Both endpoints are inclusive. If the two snapshots differ by more than seven days, the run fails with SOURCE_SNAPSHOT_SKEW rather than combining mismatched versions.

Input

{
  "lookbackDays": 30,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeAdvisersGained": true,
  "includeAdvisersLost": true,
  "includeNewLicensees": true,
  "states": []
}

states filters the AFS licensee principal-business state; an empty array includes all states and territories. No login, API key, proxy, credentials, comparison baseline, or historical snapshot crawl is required.

Output

Results are ranked deterministically, prioritizing newly commenced and growing licensees. SUMMARY in the default Key-Value Store records source dates, row and event counts, filters, exclusions, limits, resource details, delimiter detection, and duration. Summary rows are never mixed into the default Dataset.

The Financial Adviser source is rejected with ADVISER_DATA_SANITY_FAILED if a nonempty download does not contain usable role statuses, current appointments, start dates, and licence numbers. SUMMARY exposes aggregate-only parsing diagnostics; it never includes adviser-level values.

Repeated runs against the same source snapshots and input produce identical Dataset content, including stable SHA-256 signalId values. The output scrapedAt is anchored to the reference snapshot date to preserve that reproducibility.

Attribution and licence

Source data is attributed to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and data.gov.au. Reuse is subject to the licence stated on the relevant data.gov.au dataset pages (commonly Creative Commons Attribution 4.0); users should review the current package metadata and attribution requirements.