Funding woes, commission cuts, lenders leaving the market and the demise of mortgage managers. The Adviser’s James Mitchell explores how the GFC shaped the third-party channel.
The full impact of the GFC on the consumer psyche is difficult to comprehend from this sunny corner of the world. In the US and UK, the financial crisis was truly felt. Unemployment soared. Banks collapsed. People lost their homes. As the world slowly came to understand what the hell had happened, thanks in part to documentaries like Inside Job and Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, consumers were left with a deep resentment towards major financial institutions.
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