{"id":33241,"date":"2016-05-09T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=33241"},"modified":"2016-05-10T21:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:56:47","slug":"zurich-opens-new-risk-adviser-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/05\/09\/zurich-opens-new-risk-adviser-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Opens New Risk Adviser Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has replaced its previous adviser portal with a new offering, named ZLife, designed to offer the same functionality on mobile devices as on a desktop computer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31180\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/Kristine-Brooks.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31180\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/Kristine-Brooks.jpg\" alt=\"Zurich's Head of Distribution, Retail Life &amp; Investments, Kristine Brooks\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zurich&#8217;s Head of Distribution, Retail Life &amp; Investments, Kristine Brooks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new site was beta tested with a pilot group of risk advisers with Zurich stating this led to the inclusion of a delegation function for practice staff and extended session time-outs.<\/p>\n<p>Advisers will be able to upload documents and photos from any device or computer or download brochures and forms, and view client applications, renewals, transactions and account balances.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich stated the new site, which replaced Zurich\u2019s Adviser Assist portal from 2 May, will send users a weekly summary email which will evolve to a full push notification service in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich, Australian Life and Investments business, Head of Retail Distribution, <strong>Kristine Brooks<\/strong> said the new portal was part of the insurer\u2019s \u2018Blueprints for the Future\u2019 program.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks said efficiency was a primary focus for many advisers and research conducted by Zurich found that automation and process simplification were two ways advisers were looking at achieve this end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has replaced its previous adviser portal with a new offering, named ZLife, designed to offer the same functionality on mobile devices as on a desktop computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-products","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241","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=33241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}