{"id":13669,"date":"2011-12-09T14:28:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:20:42","slug":"zurich-predicts-a-hi-tech-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/12\/09\/zurich-predicts-a-hi-tech-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Predicts a Hi-Tech Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One-third of advisers will buy or receive a smart phone or tablet for Christmas, according to a recent poll conducted by Zurich.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The online survey of financial advisers also found that 75% of respondents said that technology has a positive influence over their work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zurich, of all the various types of mobile devices, Apple was found to be the preferred brand among advisers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 62% of those surveyed said they will use technology to keep in touch with their business during the Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc Fabris<\/strong>, National Manager Sales Strategy and Research, Retail Risk, said: \u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a significant take-up of technology by advisers to date and Zurich is well-positioned to cater for this growing trend in the New Year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Responding well to the trend for greater mobility and speed of access when it comes to client engagement and risk insurance advice is of utmost importance,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-third of advisers will buy or receive a smart phone or tablet for Christmas, according to a recent poll conducted by Zurich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}