Bob Dodd, Chief Executive of the Centrepoint lending businesses said, ‘Centrepoint is totally committed to growing our lending solutions businesses. Our mortgage aggregation business has not been keeping up with industry pace over recent years, so we have made some changes.

‘As a non-institutionally owned alternate to the bank-owned or part-institutionally owned players, we believe we are in a good position to offer a bespoke service to brokers by enhancing their experience with education and training and a personalised, consistent and reliable service.

‘We have continued to invest in our broker systems and have formed a joint board with broker representatives to ensure we deliver added value and productivity gains.’

On recruitment of Frost, Dodd says, ‘Kevin’s appointment clearly illustrates our commitment to grow the business and continuing to help our existing and new brokers expand their businesses and our plan is to recruit further staff and introduce more brokers in the coming weeks.

‘We have a unique opportunity to introduce our mortgage and asset finance intermediaries to over 1,400 financial advisers and accountancy practices, as well as finding a number of general insurance brokers who are interested in our lending products too.

Kevin Frost says he is delighted with the appointment and firmly believes he is joining the business at the right time. ‘It’s fantastic that management realised the need to make change in order to grow. In the few weeks I have been here, there is clear evidence that the Centrepoint executive team are committed to our mortgage business and are assisting its total integration into the Centrepoint group.’

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Bob Dodd

Centrepoint Alliance Premium Funding Pty Ltd (‘Centrepoint’) and Steadfast Group Limited (‘Steadfast’) have announced the appointment of Centrepoint to become a preferred partner and provider of insurance premium funding facilities to the 306 strong Steadfast broker network.

Centrepoint has built relationships over a number of years with individual Steadfast Network Brokers, providing local service with a nationwide presence offering high quality, consistent and reliable service.

Robert Kelly, Managing Director and CEO of Steadfast, said “We are delighted to appoint Centrepoint as a preferred partner of Steadfast given the years of reliable and personalised service we have received. We believe together we can create a long term mutually rewarding relationship and build closer ties between our organisations”.

This agreement means that Steadfast can continue to ensure choice of providers to its growing number of broker businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

Bob Dodd, CEO of Centrepoint Alliance Premium Funding, said “We are very pleased to be given this opportunity. We take pride as a team in our delivery to brokers and we are committed to continue adding value by proactively supporting and enhancing our customer experience by delivering first class, consistent and reliable funding solutions”.

“It is important that we always recognise the broker as our primary customer taking a holistic, portfolio approach to heir business in respect of flexibility and risk management”.

The three year distribution agreement commences on 1 September 2014.

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