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The Adviser Podcast Network is a brisk industry feed for Australian mortgage and finance brokers. It mixes weekly news wrap-ups with interview-led episodes on scaling, technology, outsourcing, lender service, rates, refinancing, and property demand.
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The Adviser Podcast Network is an industry-native briefing room for Australian mortgage and finance broking. It keeps one foot in the weekly news cycle and the other in the practical running of a brokerage. The headline format moves quickly. RBA rate decisions, inflation pressure, fuel security fears, household borrowing capacity, investor lending, open banking, mortgage fraud, and bank policy all become broker-facing conversations rather than abstract economic commentary. The hosts are comfortable with numbers, but the numbers are usually a starting point. What matters is how a rate call, lender process, refinance friction, or property-market shift lands with brokers and their clients. The interview-led episodes bring a different pace. They sit with brokerage owners, award finalists, lenders, and service providers long enough to hear how systems, hiring decisions, technology, and support teams work in practice. Recent episodes spend serious time on scaling. Kate Garrett talks through outsourcing with VA Platinum, embedding a VA into a brokerage, and visiting Cebu to see the support operation up close. Other conversations look at brokerages growing on the Sunshine Coast or building boutique non-franchise recognition in WA. Technology is another recurring lane. First Title and Beyond Bank guests describe open banking, AI, fast refinancing, electronic discharge authorities, broker portals, PEXA visibility, and feedback-led process changes. Better Business Summit and Awards coverage gives the network a live trade-event rhythm, with conversations pulled from Sydney, WA, Queensland, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, and Melbourne. The show is polished enough to be useful but still sounds like people who have been covering the sector all week. It does not waste much time on grand theory. It is at its best when turning market noise into what brokers need to watch next.
Made for: For Australian mortgage and finance brokers, brokerage owners, lender channel teams, and industry professionals who want current market context tied to day-to-day broker operations.
What sets it apart: It combines weekly news analysis with field interviews from broker events and award circuits, so policy shifts, lender changes, and growth tactics are tested against real brokerage experience.
The Adviser Podcast Network brings together the best of the Australian broking industry within one dedicated platform – delivering brokers professional development advice and top tips on running a successful broking business.Lead by editor Annie Kane, The Adviser Podcast Network includes a number of focused programs, including:Elite Broker: Interviews with Australia's leading brokers to uncover their career progression, how they're operating a busy broker business, and their top tips for brokers looking to run a successful brokerage.In Focus: Looking at one particular theme, segment or trend impacting the broking industry, In Focus aims to help brokers keep across the latest developments in…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Broker interviews and news discussions connect Australian lending conditions with the practical mechanics of applications, approvals and brokerage operations.
The Adviser Podcast Network follows Australian mortgage and asset finance from the broker's side of the desk, combining practitioner interviews with discussions of industry news.
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A brisk broker-market wrap that turns investor lending data into practical housing signals.
The episode works best when it centers on the Westpac and PropTrack investor report, especially the detail that new investor loans have risen 64% since 2023 and lifted investors' share of the housing market to its highest recorded level since 2017.
Broker feedback and lender tech meet in a practical look at mortgage processing.
The piece frames mortgage processing as an operational workflow problem, with technology, broker feedback, and lender operations all moving in the same direction.
A brisk broker-market wrap that turns the RBA hold into borrower reality.
The weekly wrap keeps its focus on the Australian mortgage and finance broker market, with rates at the center of the discussion. It links the RBA's 5-4 hold to immediate pressure on borrowers, then folds in renewed inflation worries, higher fuel prices, and mortgage demand…
A broker-focused look at Bank West's digital push and its practical approach to self-employed and high-LVR lending.
Bank West's broker strategy sits at the centre of this review, with Grant Roden laying out the lender's digital pivot and its focus on broker support.
A grounded broker-side look at why modular home finance can narrow lender choice fast.
Modular and tiny homes are framed here as a practical pressure point in housing affordability, supply and lending policy. Annie Kane's conversation with Queensland broker Teresa Fisk keeps the focus on the work behind financing these builds: finding local builders, visiting…
A practical look at disciplined credit work inside an asset finance brokerage.
Colin Evans, director of The Asset Finance Shop, gives a focused view of the commercial discipline behind an asset finance brokerage. The Bondi Junction team works with clients with ABNs, writing 100 plus loans a month across trucks, trailers, excavators and passenger vehicles,…
CBA's 68% proprietary flow record gives this brisk market wrap its sharpest broker-channel angle.
What's Making Headlines turns a cheerful wedding catch-up into a tight sweep of the signals mortgage brokers are watching: the next CPI figures, the coming rate decision, bank trading updates, and CBA's push around proprietary home loans.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
Ben Squires interviews Colin Evans, director of The Asset Finance Shop, a Sydney-based brokerage shortlisted for Asset Finance Brokerage of the Year.
Hosts Annie Kane and Will discuss record-breaking ABS data showing a 14% quarterly surge in investor lending.
This episode discusses the latest Australian mortgage broker market share figures, which reached a record high of 77.6% for new home loans in June 2025.
This episode features an interview with broker Matt Spears discussing why staying in your lane is a myth and how diversification is key to long-term wealth and business resilience in the broking industry.
This episode discusses whether open banking can address mortgage fraud while covering the Better Business summit in Sydney, broker engagement, AI applications, and upcoming events in the Australian mortgage market.
This episode features an interview with Kate Garrett about how she scaled her brokerage through outsourcing with VA Platinum, discussing challenges, decision-making, and implementation.
This episode features an interview with Luke Meisenhalter, CEO of Bankwest and Director of Loan Right Financial Services, discussing his journey from earning $30k in his first year to scaling a high-volume brokerage on the Sunshine Coast, based on insights from the Better Business Summit.
This episode discusses how fuel security fears are impacting the economic outlook, focusing on news in the Australian mortgage and finance broker market.
An interview with Michael Killiner of Tusk Finance, a multi-finalist in WA's Better Business Awards, discussing his brokerage's success and recognition in categories like Best Boutique Non-Franchise Office.
Investor lending is back in the headlines.
Mortgage processing is moving quickly, and Annie Kane keeps the conversation close to brokers.
Charlie Chechenian hosts this week’s wrap while Annie Kane is away at the Better Business Summit Awards in Adelaide.
The episode opens on Bankwest's broker push.
Annie Kane speaks with Teresa Fisk, a Queensland broker working with modular-home finance and alternative housing enquiries.
This episode features an interview with Myra Hone from Athena Home Loans discussing bridging finance solutions for property buyers and current market conditions.
Annie and Ben discuss the week's biggest news in the Australian mortgage and finance broker market, including controversy around the Help to Buy scheme and updates from industry events.
This episode features an interview with Colin Evans, director of The Asset Finance Shop, discussing his brokerage's operations, client base, and challenges in the current market as a finalist for an industry award.