Mortgage Adviser

• stephen@mx.co.nz 
• Mobile: 021 0424423
• Freephone: 0800 226 226
• Regions available: Hamilton, Cambridge
  
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"My clients will receive a “high performance” service, knowing I will be working hard to help them achieve their goals"

As a mortgage adviser at Mortgage Express, Stephen Jones loves helping people achieve their property investment goals, whether that be a first home, a last home, or anything in between.

Stephen has spent much of his career as an elite athlete with the New Zealand rowing team, and has been competing professionally for over 10 years. He competed in the Rio (2016) and Tokyo (2020/21) Olympic Games.

“I approach life with the same mindset I did in high performance sport: Set clear goals, figure out what needs to be done, do it. My clients will receive a “high performance” service, knowing I will be working hard to help them achieve their goals.”

A self-described perfectionist, Stephen is committed to finding financial solutions that work best for his clients. As an elite athlete, Stephen has developed strong self-motivation and discipline skills that inspire him to succeed. No stranger to stressful situations, Stephen is able to think on his feet and call on the resources of his team when necessary.

“Training, competing and performing at many world level events all around the globe has instilled discipline, a strong work ethic, leadership skills, and the drive to be the best I can be at whatever I do.”

Based in Cambridge, Stephen describes himself as family oriented and enjoys working with people from all walks of life. When he isn’t busy helping clients, Stephen, wife Anna and two children, Ollie and Ruby, can regularly be seen walking around town, having a coffee or playing at the local park.

Important information about SJones Finance Limited FSP 1004159

Licence status and conditions

Astute Financial Management Limited FSP641829 (Astute) holds a licence issued by the Financial Markets Authority to provide financial advice service.

SJones Finance Limited FSP 1004159 is authorised by that licence to provide financial advice service.

Our contact details are:

Address:           562 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton, 3204

Telephone:       021 0424423

Email:                stephen@mx.co.nz

We provide financial advice on Mortgage Products and Consumer Credit Contracts.

We encourage you to read the important information given below. It may help you decide whether your financial needs may be met by engaging with us.

Nature and scope of financial advice service

We engage financial advisers to provide financial advice on the following financial products:

Residential and personal loan products
We, through our advisers, provide financial advice service about loan products only from the following providers (also known as lenders):

We do not provide financial advice service related to:

1. Investment products (e.g., shares, bonds, managed funds, etc.) and KiwiSaver products; and
2. Estate planning (such as Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, and trusts of any description); and
3. General Insurance products; and
4. Personal Risk Insurance products.

You will need to consult appropriate specialists if you would like advice on the products above.

Fees, expenses, or other amounts payable

In majority of cases we do not charge any fee, expense or other amount for the financial advice provided to you or for implementing that advice. Our remuneration is paid by the product providers by way of commission.

However, we may charge a fee for the financial advice service provided to a client where a client repays a residential home loan within a defined time up to 28 months from the date it is drawn down.

Whether a fee will be charged, the manner in which it will be charged and the date by which the fee will be payable will be advised when the financial advice service is provided to the client.

Conflicts of interest and commissions or other incentives

We and Astute will receive commission from the lenders who provide residential and personal loan products. If you decide to take out a residential or personal loan, then the lender will pay commission based on the amount of loan settled with that lender or lenders.

Our adviser takes drawings from SJones Finance Limited.

From time to time, various product providers (described previously) may also reward us and/or Astute for the overall business provided to them. They may give tickets to sports events, hampers, or other incentives. To ensure that our financial advisers prioritise the client’s interests above their own, we follow an advice process that ensures our recommendations are made based on the client’s personal goals and circumstances. All our financial advisers undergo annual professional development refresher training about how to manage conflicts of interest. We maintain registers of conflicts of interests, and the gifts and incentives received.

Complaints handling and dispute resolution

We take all complaints seriously and work to resolve them as quickly as possible.

If you are unhappy with our financial advice service, and wish to make a complaint, please contact your financial adviser so he or she can try to put things right.

If you do not feel comfortable discussing your concerns with your adviser, you can:

• Call Mortgage Express Head Office on 0800 226226 between the hours of 8:30 am - 5 pm week days
• Email complaints@mx.co.nz
• Write to Mortgage Express Head Office, PO Box 9268, Newmarket, Auckland 1023.

How your Complaint will be handled

We will deal with your complaint using our internal complaints handling process. Accordingly,

• We will investigate your complaint by analysing the information you provided us; and
• We may contact you to get additional information about your complaint.

We aim to resolve your complaint within 40 days of its receipt and advise you, in writing, our proposed resolution to your complaint.

If we cannot resolve your complaint within 40 days of receipt (or any additional time you have given us thereafter, at our request) you can contact the Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL).

FSCL provides an independent external dispute resolution service to consumers with complaints about their financial service providers. This service will cost you nothing and will help us to investigate or resolve your complaint if it is not resolved to your satisfaction using our internal complaints process.

You can contact the FSCL Scheme at:

Email:                                  complaints@fscl.org.nz

Website:                              www.fscl.org.nz

Telephone:                          0800 347 257 or +64 4 4723725

Address:                              Level 4, 101 Lambton Quay, Wellington 6011

                                              P O Box 5967, Wellington 6140

Duties

We, Astute and our financial advisers are bound by the following duties under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 to:

• meet the standards of competence, knowledge, and skill set out in the Code of Professional Conduct for Financial Advice Services (Code of Conduct), which form part of the wider regulatory regime for financial advice and ensure we have the expertise necessary to provide you with advice; and
• give priority to your interests by taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the advice given to you is not materially influenced by our own interests or the interests of any other person connected with the giving of advice; and
• exercise care, diligence, and skill that a prudent person engaged in the occupation of giving related financial advice would in the same circumstances; and
• meet the standards of ethical behaviour, conduct, and client care set out in the Code of Conduct, to treat you as we should and to provide you with suitable advice.