Many advisers and business owners focus their time and attention on a specific niche. Gus from Spring Loans has directed his focus towards business lending.

In this chat, Gus and I discuss strategy, his business journey and winning Commercial Adviser of the year in 2024.

KiwiSaver kicked off in 2007 and has grown to over $110 billion in the scheme since its inception (at the time of release). It has incredible potential to give Kiwis a better retirement.

Today we chat with Brendan Ward from NZ Funds about how we can maximise that growth and where it could head in the future.

We have a special guest for this week's episode of the KAN Podcast.

April Hastilow joins us from Opes Mortgages. April has consistently been on the top mortgage adviser list and was named again for 2024. This time in 12th place!

We discuss her journey from working in media to joining the bank and eventually becoming a mortgage adviser.

The company she works with is Opes Mortgages. They are incredible operators and April gives insight into how they've become a content machine and one of our industry's top businesses.

In this episode of the KAN Podcast, Ben Pauley, financial adviser and director at Lateral Partners, shares his experience and opinion about the complexities of development and residential lending.

We also discussed marketing strategy and the direction he's guiding the business.

Blandon Leung is a director and mortgage adviser at MortgageHQ.

In this podcast, we discuss the approach to marketing and advice that has helped MHQ grow to one of the industry's juggernauts.

A typical journey for a financial adviser in New Zealand is the pathway from a provider, working under a larger brand, and finally starting your own business.

Daniel Lipman spent his 21st Birthday doing something not many 21-year-olds would even consider; sitting his level 5 papers to become a financial adviser.

Fast forward to now and Daniel has achieved a lot for such a young lad. He's been consistently recognised as one of NZ's top mortgage advisers and now he's started his own business.

With the help of his business partners, they're laying the foundations to build something great.

This conversation with Kris Ballantyne from Partners Life is a doozy and there are so many interesting takeaways for Kiwi financial advisers even if you're not in the personal risk insurance space.

Kris has been an integral part of the Partners Life story since day one and we discussed how a Kiwi insurer start-up became one of the juggernauts of our industry.