COLUMNS • MY BUSINESS
All about the team Cameron Marcroft joined the industry ‘accidentally’ and has gone from strength to strength. BY DANIEL DUNKLEY
In this edition of My Business we speak to Cameron Marcroft who, back in 2017, was named best new adviser of the year at the PAA Excellence Awards. He runs Marcroft Mortgages under the auspices of Loan Market Central in Remuera and covers the high-end suburbs of Ellerslie, Mt Eden, Meadowbank, Epsom and the surrounding suburbs. Marcroft made the move into the mortgage adviser space in early 2016, but he has been working in the broader industry since the early 2000s and was in sales at NZFSG from 2013 to 2015. What prompted you to go into the mortgage advice sector? It was accidental … I went to the UK to play rugby (semi-professionally) and had to get a job as my rugby career didn’t quite work out. So I got a job with the local building society in the North of England specialising in mortgages. From there I worked for a Kiwi mortgage broker based in London and upon returning to New Zealand, I started working with the National Bank/ANZ in 2003.
How did you learn your trade? Being an assessor in the bank broker unit and my experience as a BDM for NZFSG in third party aggregation.
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Tell us about your business. Why are you passionate about being an adviser? I’ve been trading as a mortgage adviser under Loan Market for just over five years. I have an awesome team of nine support staff who make the business run smoothly for me. Up until recently, I have been the sole adviser but I have just progressed one of my team into being a qualified mortgage adviser with two more doing their papers to become accredited. I’m genuinely passionate about our industry and the role we as advisers play in helping our clients create financial freedom and wealth.
