{"id":13358,"date":"2011-11-23T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=13358"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:20:04","slug":"choosing-your-main-insurance-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/11\/23\/choosing-your-main-insurance-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Your Main Insurance Provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/polls\/choosing-your-main-insurance-provider\" 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>Financial advisers place an average of 54% of all their insurance premium business with a single provider, according to the recently released Investment Trends 2011 Planner Risk Report.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this key statistic, our latest poll question asks:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What is the most influential factor that determines the choice of your main insurance provider?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research firm notes how crucial it is for providers to become an adviser&#8217;s primary insurer, given the volume of business involved.\u00a0 It\u00a0cites three areas it says\u00a0will be\u00a0key battle grounds amongst insurers as they fight for advisers&#8217; business\u00a0over the coming year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IT systems<\/li>\n<li>Websites<\/li>\n<li>Communications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A similar poll run by riskinfo\u00a0in 2008 revealed that the relationship between adviser and life company was the most important factor when choosing insurers, followed by the quality of underwriting services.\u00a0 Is this still the case?<\/p>\n<p>To what extent have\u00a0factors such as industry consolidation, regulatory change, technology advancements, product innovation etc, influenced\u00a0your choice of your main provider?<\/p>\n<p>Consider the options, cast your vote and let us know whether your views on this topic have changed over time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/polls\/choosing-your-main-insurance-provider\" 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>Financial advisers place an average of 54% of all their insurance premium business with a single provider, according to the recently released Investment Trends 2011 Planner Risk Report. Based on this key statistic, 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-13358","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\/13358","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=13358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}