EDITORIAL

It’s conference time!

Here at TMM we are excited to be putting together our annual mortgage adviser conference, after a couple of years of Covidenforced delays.

This year’s event will be at the Novotel

Auckland Airport on Thursday October 27 so out-of-town advisers can fly in, fly out.

One of the themes of the conference is looking at the future or mortgage advice.

We will be releasing and discussing the results of our latest adviser survey.

Also, we have a session where a number of advisers discuss their different business models.

Back by popular demand is independent economist Tony Alexander and Corelogic head of research Nick

Goodall to discuss what is happening in the housing market.

Our inspirational session: From

Lemons to Lemonade is one you won’t want to miss.

I won’t give too much away here, but

I can assure you it is a fantastic session.

Details of other sessions can be found on the conference pages at tmmonline.nz

There are a limited number of tickets and I encourage you to head to tmmonline.nz to secure your seat.

By the time you read this the Financial

Markets Authority “unofficial” deadline for applying for a full licence will be close or passed.

The regulator has been saying if you don’t have your application in before the end of September there is no guarantee it will be processed by the deadline of

March next year. No licence. No business.

It seems there are still many advisers out there who have not lodged their application. Whether that means people who planned to have their own Financial Advice Provider licence are now looking at joining another group is going to be fascinating.

Potentially the whole shape of mortgage advice may change someone what.

As for the lending market we get feedback that it is interesting times and clearly volumes have slowed down significantly.

Having a bit of a breather is probably not a bad thing after the frantic past couple of years. It is a time where advisers can spend more time on their business and prepare for regulation include completing level five papers.

We look forward to seeing you at the Better Business conference in Auckland at the end of October.

Philip Macalister Publisher

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