Australian Broker forum - have your say

A major bank has launched an incentive program that could see brokers receiving an extra 10bps of upfront commissionread more

• @Kevin Melbourne and @Brisbane Broker. Top marks, glad to see you are putting cl ...
• Good job Westpac! Regardless what sayings there are, I believe WBC's volumn w ...
• James – Who are you? Obviously not a broker! Maybe you work at Westpac, because ...
• Excellent smart initative. This puts Westpac back on our panel and I am sure ev ...
• Good to see Competition at work even if the WBC effort is cosmetic. Thanks ME Ba ...

Despite low home loan interest rates, borrowers are feeling the squeeze when it comes to their personal finances in light of this week's Budget announcementread more

• Please understand I have spent 9 years working very hard & invested $250K of bor ...
• It's weak to blame Labour [sic] for those things. Eg. collecting tax for free fo ...
• The labour government have continued to make running a small business totally un ...
• Re: realist "loosing" "...clearly don't understand how to build a budget littl ...
• I was just wondering if anyone noticed, that's all. How does business !possib ...

A major aggregation group has made changes to its tech offering in response to broker feedbackread more

• mac, we set it up ourselves (one of our directors is a whiz with all things IT) ...
• @mac connective does this now, full customer portal where customers can input/e ...
• @ozboy can you tell me who provides this functionality nand if you can then popu ...
• Hey PeterT what make you think it's not verified? Where does it say that you can ...
• Brokers seriously want borrowers to do their data entry without verifying it the ...

Questionable 'free' property investment seminars have stirred one state's government to issue an official warning - but a local broking group says they've been going on for more than 30 yearsread more

• In my experience: there ARE reputable and professional welth creation groups out ...
• it's not about coaching program it's about selling investment properties where t ...
• Hi Asic go look at JDL and you will find what your looking for
• I have been to many of the 'free' seminars and bought the education packages tha ...
• I attended a few of these seminars conducted by diferent organisers and they all ...

With half of Gen Y members snubbing financial planners - and even fewer asking their parents - who's left to offer advice?read more

• Whilst cynical I agree with Robert. The changes that SHOULD be happening within ...
• A lack of financial intelligence is the goal of government regulation. Regulatio ...