The mortgage and finance industries have celebrated this year’s top performers at the Australian Mortgage Awards 2022.
For the first time in three years, more than 700 brokers, lenders, aggregators and BDMs gathered in person and were dressed to impress at The Fullerton Hotel Sydney on October 14 to celebrate the 2022 AMA champions.
This year the AMAs were hosted by Australian comedian, radio and television presenter Ed Kavalee, regular panellist on Have You Been Paying Attention? and guests danced the night away to Furnace & the Fundamentals once the award ceremony wrapped up.
The industry’s most prestigious awards event is run by Key Media and supported by Australian Broker and Mortgage Professional Australia. Westpac was the event partner for the 13th consecutive year for the mortgage industry’s night of nights.
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The 2022 awards featured 25 categories plus the two major awards – Westpac Australian Broker of the Year and Liberty Australian Brokerage of the Year.
Daniel Green (pictured above left) from Brisbane’s Green Finance Group won Westpac Australian Broker of The Year and Melbourne’s Entourage Finance was named the Liberty Australian Brokerage of the Year.
Green also took home the La Trobe Financial Broker of the Year – Commercial award. The FBAA Broker of the Year – Independent & Franchise winner was Josh Egan from Astute Melbourne City South and Gippsland.
The Pepper Money Broker of the Year – Specialist Lending winner was Mhairi MacLeod (pictured above right) from Astute Ability Finance Group on NSW’s Central Coast. Christian Stevens from Shore Financial in North Sydney won Equity-One Broker of the Year – Productivity.
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The high level of entries for the NextGen Broker of the Year – Regional category meant that the judges were unable to split the competition when it came to the top spot. Brenden Lowbridge from Money Links in Newcastle and Jason Cuerel from Mortgage Innovations on the Gold Coast were named as joint winners.
Nick Atanasovksi of Cronulla-based Turnkey Finance won Adelaide Bank Young Gun of the Year.
For the brokerage of the year awards, The Trilogy Funds Brokerage of the Year – Diversification award went to Bell Partners Finance in Sydney.
St Kilda brokerage Everlend, run by director Evelyn Clark, won MFAA Brokerage of the Year (1-5 Staff), as well as BOQ Broker Best Customer Service from an Individual Office. Entourage Finance took home the Resimac Brokerage of the Year (6-20 Staff) section and Melbourne’s Inovayt won the Commonwealth Bank Brokerage of the Year (>20 Staff).
Gold Coast company Go Mortgage was named Brokerage of the Year – Regional while the Bankwest New Brokerage of the Year award went to Sydney’s MortgageWorks.
In the industry categories, Bankwest won MSA National Bank of the Year, while Pepper Money was named Non-Bank of the Year and the PropTrack Fintech Lender of the Year award went to ubank.
Australian Broker is thankful to all the AMAs sponsors: Westpac (event partner), Adelaide Bank, Bankwest, BOQ, Commonwealth Bank, Dye & Durham, Equity-One, FBAA, Firstmac, La Trobe Financial, Liberty, MFAA, Mortgage Choice, MSA National, NextGen, OnDeck, Pepper Money, PropTrack, Prime Capital, Resimac and Trilogy Funds.
All the Australian Mortgage Award winners are listed below and you can also see them at the AMAs official website: https://www.australianmortgageawards.com.au/winners/2022
LA TROBE FINANCIAL BROKER OF THE YEAR – COMMERCIAL
Winner: Daniel Green, Green Finance Group
FBAA BROKER OF THE YEAR – INDEPENDENT & FRANCHISE
Winner: Josh Egan, Astute Melbourne City South and Gippsland
PEPPER MONEY BROKER OF THE YEAR – SPECIALIST LENDING
Winner: Mhairi MacLeod, Astute Ability Finance Group
EQUITY-ONE BROKER OF THE YEAR – PRODUCTIVITY
Winner: Christian Stevens, Shore Financial
NEXTGEN BROKER OF THE YEAR – REGIONAL
Winners:
Brenden Lowbridge, Money Links and Jason Cuerel, Mortgage Innovations
ADELAIDE BANK YOUNG GUN OF THE YEAR
Winner: Nick Atanasovski, Turnkey Finance
TRILOGY FUNDS BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR – DIVERSIFICATION
Winner: Bell Partners Finance
MFAA BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR (1-5 STAFF)
Winner: Everlend
RESIMAC BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR (6-20 STAFF)
Winner: Entourage Finance
COMMONWEALTH BANK BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR (>20 STAFF)
Winner: Inovayt
BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR – REGIONAL
Winner: Go Mortgage
BANKWEST NEW BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR
Winner: MortgageWorks
BOQ BROKER BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE FROM AN INDIVIDUAL OFFICE
Winner: Everlend
BEST INDUSTRY MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Winner: Bankwest
DYE & DURHAM BEST INDUSTRY SERVICE
Winner: Broker Essentials
PRIME CAPITAL AGGREGATOR OF THE YEAR (UP TO 500 BROKERS)
Winner: Money Quest Group
ONDECK AGGREGATOR OF THE YEAR (OVER 500 BROKERS)
Winner: Loan Market
FIRSTMAC BEST AGGREGATOR BDM
Winner: Haley Bellamy, AFG
BEST MAJOR BANK BDM
Winner: Murray Smith, Commonwealth Bank
BEST NON-MAJOR BANK BDM
Winner: Roohi Kumar, St George
MORTGAGE CHOICE BEST NON-BANK BDM
Winner: Maddie Matthews, Plenti
MSA NATIONAL BANK OF THE YEAR
Winner: Bankwest
NON-BANK OF THE YEAR
Winner: Pepper Money
PROPTRACK FINTECH LENDER OF THE YEAR
Winner: ubank
MORTGAGE MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Mortgage Ezy
WESTPAC AUSTRALIAN BROKER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Daniel Green, Green Finance Group
LIBERTY AUSTRALIAN BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Entourage Finance
