Our Team
MGD Wealth has a substantial team of specialists, led by our directors who have diverse yet complimentary financial experience, who work together towards your financial success. Each advice area has specialist skills, that when combined, provide complete financial clarity for our valued clients. Our team’s diversity allows us to approach your individual requirements from various angles to provide a solution tailored to your individual needs. At all times through this process, you will have direct contact with your key relationship manager.
Meet our directors
PAUL BODIMEADE / MANAGING DIRECTOR
Having been a Partner of a large Chartered Accountant firm for 22 years Paul brings a wealth of experience and a progressive vision to the MGD Wealth team. His specialist skills are providing taxation, superannuation and corporate finance advice to larger private business family groups and professional service firms. Paul is now focused on evolving MGD Wealth as a market leader in wealth management services. A lover of fine wine, Paul avidly collects wine for his personal cellar and actively participates in the wine industry through direct interests in vineyards, working with clients who import, distribute and retail wine, participating in wine tastings and of course supporting fine food and wine establishments.
MICHAEL LORIMER / DIRECTOR
Experienced in the design and history of Self Managed Pension fund structures, Michael is a very rare breed of expert in the diverse field of Self Managed Superannuation Funds. He is heavily involved in the SMSF industry and is the Chair of the national Small Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA). He has extensive involvement in the development of superannuation legislation and policy and is in constant liaison, and has built solid relationships, with the Federal Government, its agencies and all major political parties keeping MGD at the leading edge of the SMSF market. Michael is also a sports enthusiast with a keen interest in running.
ANDREW ALBURY / DIRECTOR
Regularly called upon by CPA Australia to share his expertise in financial services, Andrew believes that building a long-term relationship with his clients is the key to gaining a comprehensive understanding of their needs, and creating a specialised Total Wealth Management plan to achieve their goals. He has many years of experience working in all the advice areas of MGD Wealth. Andrew spends as much of his leisure time as possible at his beach shack in idyllic Evans Head, New South Wales.
BRETT SCHMIDT / DIRECTOR
A Chartered Accountant who has always advised his private clients as part of a specialist team, Brett understands the benefits that integrated specialist advice brings to the financial advisory outcome. At MGD Wealth we adopt that integrated approach in formulating and implementing our client advice solution. Brett has a strong domestic and international tax background and gives the MGD Wealth financial advice solution a distinct advantage. He is an avid snow skier and generally spends the Australian summer skiing in Japan.
