

Are 20% deposits dead? Or is high LVR lending really too risky?
High LVR: super high cost, complicated, high risk, only for first home buyers. Sound familiar? In this episode of Broker Bulletin, Kath Persoglia sits down with Mario Emmanuel, Co-Founder of Skip by LMG, to debate the realities of high LVR lending and the current sentiment in the market around the…

Why I tell my brokers to beat me (and why I’ll never let them)
Jason Wylie has always been a high performer. But writing big numbers was never the actual goal. In this episode of Broker Bulletin, the Director and Principal Broker at Loan Market Capital sits down with Alberto Gorgioski and gets candid about what building a business really looks like from the i…

Chartered Accountant-turned-trusted Broker: how Sue Vuong wins complex deals
Most brokers shy away from complex scenarios. Sue Vuong has built her whole career on them. A chartered accountant turned mortgage broker, Sue has built her Perth-based business on the clients others turn away: the self-employed, the complex, the ones who've already heard no. In the latest Broker…

Your brokerage is leaking profit — and you probably don't know where
Most brokers look at gross revenue and think they're on track. MK says that's exactly the problem. In this episode of Broker Bulletin, LMG's Denya Dean sits down with Michael Karpathakis, National Head of Business Performance at LMG, discussing what it takes to run a profitable, scalable broker bu…

Inside the next growth chapter of a $150 million market leader
George Massouridis, Founder and CEO of Mortgage Navigators in Sydney, has built something that most brokers only dream about; a business with real longevity, a team that stays, and a growth strategy that’s just getting started. In the latest Broker Bulletin, LMG's Grace Ormsby sits down with Georg…

The lender that made trust lending simple (and cheaper than you think)
Most brokers hear "trust lending" and brace for complexity. Laura Waters, Head of Residential at Podium Money, sits down with Raj Kapoor from Apollo to strip back the confusion around non-trading trust and company lending. From succession planning families to sophisticated investors, trust struct…

Diana quit her banking job in COVID, started a brokerage and grew it 200% in 12 months. Here's how.
Most brokers know social media matters. Very few actually make it work. Diana Hemmad went from posting "dodgy" videos to building a community of almost 12,000 Instagram followers driving significant leads through her pipeline and simultaneously scaling her team from two to seven in a year. In thi…

What separates brokers who scale from those who stall
Most brokers are running hard. But running hard without a clear strategy isn't growth… It's drift. Michael Karpathakis, Loan Market's National Head of Business Performance, joins Denya Dean to share the simple system behind some of the country’s best performing broker businesses. In this episode…

What nobody tells you about building a brokerage from scratch.
Andy Andrews didn't inherit a trail book. He left accounting because it bored him, spent five years learning his craft as a broker, took a leap of faith, and built Capital One Financial Services into a full-service, deliberately diversified brokerage in Walkerville, South Australia. The morning af…

The broker who still picks up the phone every morning (and why it’s a game changer)
He started alone in 2019. Now he's building the next generation of brokers from his own office.Rob Flynn launched Vorteil Financial Group the hard way. The Royal Commission had just wrapped. COVID was around the corner. And he was doing it solo in Perth. Six years on, he runs a lean, values-led br…