{"id":11665,"date":"2011-08-03T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T00:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:18:19","slug":"what-advisers-believe-their-clients-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/08\/03\/what-advisers-believe-their-clients-want\/","title":{"rendered":"What Advisers Believe Their Clients Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/polls\/what-advisers-believe-their-clients-want\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1228               aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/vote-now.jpg\" alt=\"Vote Now!\" width=\"108\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our latest poll\u00a0takes a break from FoFA-related issues and turns its attention to what advisers believe their clients expect them to deliver.\u00a0 Based on our story this week about what American clients expect from their financial advisers, our latest poll question asks:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What is the\u00a0most important\u00a0attribute consumers are looking for\u00a0when choosing their financial\u00a0adviser?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The answer to this question\u00a0for\u00a0middle-income American consumers is possibly a surprise, where the most popular attribute they sought from their adviser was technical knowledge, ahead of characteristics such as trustworthiness and honesty, etc&#8230; (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/08\/03\/top-ten-adviser-checklist-for-meeting-client-expectations\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Top Ten Adviser Checklist for Meeting Client Expectations<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe the same also applies to Australian consumers?\u00a0 What does your own experience tell you\u00a0is the single most important attribute you believe your clients and prospective clients are seeking in you?\u00a0 It&#8217;s not an easy question to answer because you can only select one of the options.<\/p>\n<p>This question goes beyond the impact of any regulatory reforms because the answer you select should be the same answer irrespective of the rules under which financial advisers\u00a0operate now or in the future.\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00a0about what\u00a0you believe your clients see in you.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know and let your fellow advisers know what you\u00a0think, and we will report back next week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/polls\/what-advisers-believe-their-clients-want\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1228               aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/vote-now.jpg\" alt=\"Vote Now!\" width=\"108\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest poll\u00a0takes a break from FoFA-related issues and turns its attention to what advisers believe their clients expect them to deliver.\u00a0 Based on our story this week about what American clients expect from their financial advisers, our latest poll question asks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-polls"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}