Opinion

For me, one of the most important steps in recruiting finance brokers is the onboarding process, and whilst many think this starts the day employment commences, the most successful processes ...

Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, where he helps some of the world’s largest companies reimagine how they interact with their customers and manage their businesses in the digital economy.

We don’t know about how you feel, but we get a little bored of newsletters with examples of successful applications for loans in the non-bank space. Given the number of absolute dollies that ...

It has been said that if you follow a personal or family budget that you will save money and clear debt. I know that this is the case as I have followed a budget for the last 15 years.

One of the biggest challenges facing business owners and managers is how to improve productivity within their organisation–that is, how to get more out of the same resources.

As brokers, you’ve probably seen it all. Exciting new products hitting the market and creating a frenzy, then spectacularly imploding and destroying bucketloads of wealth in the process. ...

A recent depreciation of the Australian dollar effectively makes the Australian property market, and all assets for that matter, look cheaper to foreign investors.

There’s a general call for increased financial literacy education for consumers. But have we ever stopped to ask ourselves what we mean by that? Why and what is the real benefit of ...

Marketplace lending is one of the biggest disruptions faced by the Australian financial sector. It is the democratisation of consumer lending, and promises to shake up a market dominated by ...

Now that we’re into the new financial year, many brokerages have started to see how the federal budget will affect them. But with some winners and some losers, the majority of brokerage ...

With brokers now writing more than 50 per cent of home loans in Australia, the same trend is well and truly playing out in commercial finance.

It’s no secret that mortgage broking is a grey-haired industry. With heaps of articles written about the ‘next generation of brokers’ and where they are going to come from, I am yet to see ...

Retrospectively terminating negative gearing would not only be inherently unfair to the increasing number of Australians who have included property as a part of their long-term financial ...

This article is for those brokers out there who currently provide a commercial lending service or who are contemplating entering into the space.

The federal government needs to clamp down on overseas sellers of second-hand Australian property to foreigners.

There has been a great deal of press speculation around the issue of a potential ‘housing bubble’ and a great number of conflicting opinions too.

Most people don’t like small talk – we’re all far too busy and important, and just want to get on with whatever it is we’re doing. The thing is, every person we meet has the potential to ...

As Australian banks seek to slow down growth in investor lending, their changes are likely to be entirely dependent on the regulator.

I have observed many financial service arms start up within real estate organisations through my many years in the real estate industry. Some have succeeded, others have failed.

There are a lot of brokers in the finance industry who advertise that they are lenders and ask for substantial upfront fees.