The Intermediary – August 2025 - Flipbook - Page 76
Meet The Broker
Trinity Financial
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Marvin Onumonu speaks with Jed Newton, mortgage broker and
director of Trinity Financial
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Tell us about yourself –
What advice would you
why did you become
give to someone starting
a broker?
out today?
After finishing university, it was
my intention to join the army and
attend the Royal Military Academy
Sandhurst. However, a motorbike
accident a few weeks before starting
put an end to that.
I got a job offering investment
and pensions advice and found
myself gravitating toward mortgage
advice. I found the relationships I
made with my clients in mortgage
related transactions to be much
more rewarding than when providing
advice about investments.
While I never planned to become a
mortgage broker, I quickly discovered
that being part of a house buying
process is a privilege and results in
an enjoyable and fruitful career.
One of the most rewarding parts of
our business has been introducing
school leavers to the industry via
apprenticeships, and watching
them develop into excellent brokers
and administrators. This is a long
pathway, but does result in excellent
staff members who have grown up
and developed within our culture.
We find that transitioning people
through an admin role into being a
trainee broker helps them to gain a
much better understanding of the
process and the industry, and much
more confidently advise clients when
they get to that point. As mortgages
are technical and complex, we
find that this greatly improves the
success rate of trainee brokers.
The Intermediary | August 2025
While the mortgage industry
does provide rewarding careers and
potential for high earnings, it does
take many years to build up the
required client base and knowledge
to get to this point.
Where people can demonstrate
sufficient patience, it is possible for
them to get to this point. Where
people want quick wins and an
easy ride, they tend to become
despondent and seek easier
pathways. The investment and the
effort are very much rewarded for
people who have the staying power.
What sets Trinity
Financial apart from
other broker firms?
We focus on offering the best
possible experience to our clients
and aim to tailor our service to fit
