MEET THE FOUNDER
Gene Shneidman
Gene Shneidman is the founder of Lush Financial, bringing over 20 years of banking and finance experience to every client relationship. His career has spanned senior leadership roles across private banking, business, and mobile lending channels, with deep expertise in credit structuring, risk assessment, and complex lending.
Throughout his career, Gene worked closely alongside credit teams - workshopping applications, escalating where needed, and structuring solutions that turned client goals into reality. He also led and mentored teams to build trust, take ownership, and deliver consistently high standards of service, particularly in complex or time-sensitive situations.
After more than two decades leading others within major institutions, Gene founded Lush Financial to bring that same depth of experience directly to his own clients. His approach is hands-on, relationship-led and purposeful — taking on the complexity so his clients don't have to.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Gene Shneidman
Gene Shneidman is the founder of Lush Financial, bringing over 20 years of banking and finance experience to every client relationship. His career has spanned senior leadership roles across private banking, business, and mobile lending channels, with deep expertise in credit structuring, risk assessment, and complex lending.
After more than two decades leading others within major institutions, Gene founded Lush Financial to bring that same depth of experience directly to his own clients. His approach is hands-on, relationship-led and purposeful — taking on the complexity so his clients don't have to.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Gene Shneidman
Gene Shneidman is the founder of Lush Financial, bringing over 20 years of banking and finance experience to every client relationship. His career has spanned senior leadership roles across private banking, business and mobile lending channels.
After more than two decades leading others within major institutions, Gene founded Lush Financial to bring that same depth of experience directly to his own clients. His approach is hands-on, relationship-led and purposeful — taking on the complexity so his clients don't have to.
FAQ's
There are specific factors that need to be considered when determining how much a customer can borrow, such as income, employment position, the deposit saved, current living expenses and any liabilities. Our borrowing calculator can give you a rough idea of how much you may be able to borrow. For a more accurate assessment, please give us a call and we can go into your options and discuss your circumstances in more detail.
A mortgage broker will recommend a product based on what you say is most important to you – for example, “pay my loan off quickly” or “guaranteed repayments” or “low cost”. We do however, live by the following; “if you want flexibility take a variable rate loan, if you want budget certainty, take a fixed rate loan, if you want both, then do a split loan.”
We are Connective Brokers and we have access to many lenders. This means we can source you a loan from different lenders to provide you with a variety of options that are suitable for you and your situation.
Lenders will only sell you their own products. Each bank (or lender) has a variety of loan products on offer – low doc, package loans, loans with re-draw facilities, plant and equipment loans, fixed rate loans, interest only, interested in advance, variable, introductory variable… and so on. The issue you face as a consumer is ‘which loan is right for me?’ And that is where your mortgage broker becomes an invaluable resource! If you go direct to the bank, you will only be offered the loan options available through that one lender. As your mortgage broker, we do all the leg work to find the right loan for your needs. We are across many lenders and all of their loan products, and our sole purpose is to find a suitable loan to match your personal financial circumstances and goals.
