{"id":13308,"date":"2025-07-22T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13308\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:56:09","slug":"australias-first-university-level-broker-qualification-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13308\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s first university-level broker qualification announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/au\/news\/general\/aggregator-roundtable-2025-broker-partnerships-in-flux\/541596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MPA\u2019s recent aggregator roundtable<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/au\/companies\/lmg\/469778\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LMG<\/a>\u2019s national director Rob Thomas said: \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we going into schools and talking about lending and improving financial literacy before that generation leaves home? We just don\u2019t talk about it as an industry. That\u2019s what I want to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sub-par education has been blamed for the exceptionally high turnover rates that plague the broking industry.<\/p>\n<p>Key Features<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The MFPA is available only to MFAA members who meet rigorous criteria, including a minimum of five years\u2019 experience, 250 settled loans, a Diploma of Finance and Mortgage Broking Management, up-to-date CPD, and two professional endorsements (one from an aggregator).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Participants must complete core modules in Personal Leadership, Customer Engagement, and Business Management, plus an elective (either SMSF Lending or Financial Analysis for Mortgage Finance Professionals).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dan Walsh, MFAA\u2019s executive, professional development and member engagement, said brokers who receive the designation can \u201cbuild greater trust with their clients, be recognised as a leader in their sector, and gain a competitive edge by having university-level\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At MPA\u2019s recent aggregator roundtable, LMG\u2019s national director Rob Thomas said: \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we going into schools and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,14991,2555,14990,44],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broker-association","tag-education","tag-mfaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}