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Helia and Financial Education Professionals launch new LMI course
29 April 2026 – Helia launches LMI Essentials course in partnership with Financial Education Professionals
Helia has partnered with Financial Education Professionals to launch LMI Essentials, a new on-demand course designed to give mortgage brokers and lending specialists practical, client-ready insights to elevate their conversations.
Helia recognised for 12th consecutive year as WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality
27 March 2026 – WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equity 2026-28
Helia has been recognised again by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality for 2026-28. WGEA’s Workplace Gender Equality Citation encourages and celebrates employers’ efforts towards achieving gender equality, with a focus on outcomes and the employee experience.
Helia wins 'Best B2B Campaign' at the 2026 Mumbrella CommsCon Awards
26 March 2026 – Helia wins Mumbrella CommsCon Award for 'Best B2B Campaign'
Helia's 'LMI Lets Me In' and 'LMI Lets Me Invest' campaigns wins 'Best B2B Campaign' at the 2026 Mumbrella CommsCon Awards. The two integrated campaigns set out to reposition Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) from last resort to strategic enabler and rebuild confidence across mortgage brokers and lending specialists. The campaigns shared real stories and showcased moments where LMI let their clients into the property market sooner.
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Helia gender pay gap
4 March 2026 –
At Helia, we are committed to fairness, inclusion and equitable outcomes for all our people. These results reflect the meaningful progress we are making, while reinforcing our ongoing focus on expanding equitable career opportunities across our organisation.
Helia proud to support community partners in 2026
17 December 2025 – Helia continues community partnerships into 2026
Helia is proud to announce its continuing support of three major community partnerships – Habitat for Humanity Australia, Youth Off The Streets and St Vincent de Paul Society NSW into 2026. In addition, in support of longstanding customer Defence Bank, Helia has become the first corporate sponsor of Defence Bank’s Defence Community Dog program.
Helia wins 'Best Industry Marketing Campaign' at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards
20 October 2025 – Helia wins 2025 Australian Mortgage Award (AMA) for ‘Best Industry Marketing Campaign’
Helia's ‘LMI Lets Me In’ and ‘LMI Lets Me Invest’ campaign wins 'Best Marketing Campaign' at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards. The campaign set out to reposition Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) with mortgage brokers and lending specialists as a powerful first-choice conversation, through sharing real stories and showcasing moments where LMI let their clients into the property market. The campaign, anchored in real experiences, sought to make the message of the value of LMI more relatable, trusted and memorable.
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Helia launches ‘LMI Lets Me Invest’ to empower brokers and lenders in supporting rentvestor and investor clients enter the property market sooner with LMI
23 September 2025 – Helia launches 'LMI Lets Me Invest'
Helia's new ‘LMI Lets Me Invest’ campaign is aimed at brokers and lenders to reframe Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) as a strategic enabler to help more rentvestors and investors enter the property market now and start building equity sooner.
Helia wins 2025 Brandies Award for Best Brand Campaign: Insurance category
18 August 2025 – Helia secures 'Best Brand Campaign' Award for the 2025 Brandie Awards
Helia’s ‘LMI Lets Me In’ campaign video has been recognised in the 2025 Brandie Awards, taking out the Best Brand Campaign Award for the Insurance category. The campaign repositioned LMI in the hearts and minds of mortgage brokers. Through authentic storytelling featuring real brokers and their success stories, LMI was reframed as a powerful first-choice conversation, showcasing moments where it let their clients into the property market sooner.
Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) – Helia's 2024/2025 accreditation
11 June 2025 – Helia successful in submitting the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) compliance report for 2024/2025
In May 2025, Helia lodged their Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) compliance report for 2024/2025. Helia is pleased to confirm that it meets all of the minimum standards for reporting organisations against each of the WGEA’s ‘gender equality indicators’. Notably, our achievements this year include our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts emphasising gender pay equity, ongoing investment in leadership development and a continued emphasis on flexible and inclusive work environments.
Click here to read Public Questionnaire Report Click here to Public Report - Employee data tables
Helia launches enhanced Home Deposit Estimator
5 June 2025 – Helia launches enhanced Home Deposit Estimator
Helia has relaunched its award-winning Deposit Comparison Estimator as the Home Deposit Estimator, an enhanced tool that helps lenders and brokers guide clients through home deposit options to reach their home ownership goals sooner
Helia wins Employer of Choice at the 2025 Insurance Business Awards
26 May 2025 - Helia wins Employer of Choice at the 2025 Insurance Business Awards
Helia has been named Employer of Choice at the 2025 Insurance Business Awards. This prestigious award, presented at the annual event recognising excellence across the Australian insurance industry, underscores Helia’s commitment to fostering an exceptional workplace culture and empowering its employees.
Helia named 2025 5-Star Mortgage Innovator by Australian Broker
13 May 2025 - Helia wins Australian Broker 2025 5-Star Mortgage Innovator award
Helia has been recognised as a 5-Star Mortgage Innovator, applauded for its continued commitment and leadership in supporting the mortgage broker community through its Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) education program.
Helia launches 2025 Spotlight pulse survey
30 April 2025 – Helia release latest Spotlight pulse survey.
Key insights:
- Prospective home buyers aren't giving up on their home ownership dream
- Financial readiness (49%) has overtaken deposit concerns (42%) as the main barrier to home ownership
- More home buyers are turning to mortgage brokers to help navigate the market
Click here to read more - PDF Click here to read the Helia Spotlight pulse survey - PDF
LMI Lets Me In: Helia releases a new initiative to help brokers open the door for more home buyers with Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI)
6 March 2025 – Helia launches 'LMI Lets Me In'
Helia launches ‘LMI Lets Me In’, a three-month targeted campaign aimed at reframing Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) with mortgage brokers by demonstrating the strategic value of recommending LMI to different home buyer segments.
Helia achieves gender pay equality for a second successive year
4 March 2025 – Helia achieves gender pay equality
Helia has been acknowledged by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for providing gender pay equality for the second successive year and is again recognised by WGEA for the eleventh consecutive year as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
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Helia releases 'Start your home story' - a first home buyer educational video
6 November 2024 – Helia releases educational video titled ‘Start your home story’
The video explores the real-life journey of first home buyers Mitch and Amelia who, with the help of their mortgage broker, were able to break free from renting and buy their first home with Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI). The video helps home buyers understand the benefits of leveraging LMI to enter the property market now, rather than waiting to save a 20% deposit and the importance of being guided by a mortgage broker to make a well-informed decision.
Helia wins 'Best Industry Marketing Campaign' at the 2024 Australian Mortgage Awards
19 October 2024 - Helia takes out 'Best Industry Marketing Campaign' award at the 2024 Australian Mortgage Awards (AMA)
Helia’s ‘Better, Sooner, Brighter’ campaign video has been recognised at the 2024 AMA Awards, taking out the Best Industry Marketing Campaign award. The campaign video aims to help more home buyers understand the benefits of Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) and how they could strategically utilise LMI to buy their dream home sooner.
Helia releases 2024 Home Buyer Sentiment Report
23 September 2024 – Home Buyer Sentiment Report
Helia’s 2024 Home Buyer Sentiment Report reveals that ‘cost of living’ has for the first time surpassed ‘housing affordability’ as the key barrier to entering home ownership.
Helia releases LMI fact sheets and infographics in Punjabi, Arabic and Simplified Chinese
20 August 2024 – Helia releases LMI translated resources
Entering the property market can be challenging enough, without the added complexity of a language barrier thrown into the equation. To help navigate this landscape, Helia have translated factsheets and infographics with information about LMI.