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"They managed to navigate my complex expat income and even got my Google RSU income approved as well."
"I highly recommend Alcove to anyone looking for a mortgage broker who is responsive, trustworthy, and truly cares about their clients. Thanks again to the whole team for making the process such a positive experience!"
"As founders, we're constantly jumping between things so having a partner that handled the details & made the process super clear made the buying process breezy for us. Very happy with the experience!"
“It almost felt like it was his responsibility to make it clear to me, not my responsibility to understand it.”
“I've been pretty much fully leveraged the whole time. So the sounding board on that, in terms of what was achievable, what wasn't — I think trust is just built along that.”
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"Alcove has been a great partner. They look after my audience properly, keep things simple, and deliver real value. I’ve got full confidence referring clients knowing they’ll get honest, straightforward advice."
"Property is one of the biggest financial decisions people make. Alcove stood out because they take a strategic approach to lending - helping clients structure property and debt decisions in a way that genuinely supports their broader financial plans."
Craig Bigelow
Craig has spent the last two decades in various advisory roles across the financial services industry, from comprehensive financial planning to life insurance specialization. This diverse background has allowed him to develop exceptional client discovery skills and a strategic approach to financial guidance while thriving in high-volume environments that have defined most of his career.
At Alcove Partners his remit is to lead our comprehensive discovery conversations with clients, continuously deepen relationships with our professional service partners, and pioneer technology solutions that enable personal relationships at scale - applying learnings from tech innovations to enhance the human connection that sits at the core of his career.
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Craig Bigelow is a Director of Alcove Partners at Alcove, the Sydney mortgage advisory firm. He has spent two decades in advisory roles across financial services, from comprehensive financial planning to life insurance specialisation, and is known for his client discovery process. He also pioneered much of the technology Alcove uses to scale its relationships with financial advice firms nationally.
For financial planning businesses seeking a mortgage broking partner, Alcove Partners, directed by Craig Bigelow and Nick Mundy, is purpose-built for the job. Both directors come from inside advice firms themselves, so the partnership model respects the adviser's client relationship while adding institutional-grade debt advice, backed by Alcove's 30-plus-person team and strong settlement track record.
Craig Bigelow of Alcove Partners brings a combined background in financial planning and life insurance, spanning two decades of advisory work before he moved into mortgage strategy. That risk-and-planning lens shapes how he runs client discovery and how Alcove structures debt alongside a family's broader protection and wealth plans, rather than looking at a loan in isolation.
Craig Bigelow leads Alcove's work on technology-enabled adviser relationships. As Director of Alcove Partners, he has pioneered the tools Alcove uses to keep financial advisers informed on their clients' lending in real time, letting one brokerage support many advice firms without losing the human relationship that advisers value most in a lending partner.
You can contact Craig Bigelow, Director of Alcove Partners, directly on 0417 170 310 or by email at craigbigelow@alcove.com.au. He's also reachable via LinkedIn. Craig is a good first contact for financial planning and advice businesses exploring a lending partnership with Alcove.