{"id":12060,"date":"2011-08-24T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=12060"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:18:17","slug":"news-in-brief-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/08\/24\/news-in-brief-16\/","title":{"rendered":"News in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Advisers Worse off Under FoFA<\/li>\n<li>OnePath Life Company of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Midwinter Ranked Number One by Advisers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advisers Worse of Under FoFA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Confirming earlier studies, latest research from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wealthinsights.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wealth Insights<\/a> reports advisers believe they will be worse off under the proposed Future of Financial Advice reforms.<\/p>\n<p>In answer to the question: &#8216;<em>If the proposed reforms take effect will your business be better-off or worse-off?&#8217;<\/em> 65% of advisers expect their businesses to be in a\u00a0worse situation after the reforms take effect.\u00a0 This proportion is up sharply from\u00a033% in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In the same report, 73% of advisers expect their business revenue to decrease if the proposed reforms take effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OnePath Life Insurance Company of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Onepath has been named the AFR Smart Investor Life Company of the Year for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>OnePath\u00a0thanked advisers for this recognition, noting it knows its success relies on feedback from, and its partnership with, financial advisers.<\/p>\n<p>The insurer also took out the Income Protection Product of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midwinter Ranked Number One by Advisers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research firm Midwinter has released a statement in which it announces it has been rated number one in overall satisfaction by financial planners in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investmenttrends.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investment Trends<\/a> 2011 Planner Technology Report.<\/p>\n<p>The researcher details ten service elements in which it says it &#8216;topped the league tables&#8217; in this year&#8217;s survey:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Overall usefulness<\/li>\n<li>Ease of use<\/li>\n<li>Scenario modelling<\/li>\n<li>Stability<\/li>\n<li>Production of complex plans<\/li>\n<li>Constructing portfolios<\/li>\n<li>Speed<\/li>\n<li>Vendor support<\/li>\n<li>Tax planning<\/li>\n<li>Production of simple plans<\/li>\n<li>Debt research<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisers Worse off Under FoFA OnePath Life Company of the Year Midwinter Ranked Number One by Advisers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060","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=12060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}