{"id":33573,"date":"2016-06-20T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=33573"},"modified":"2016-06-22T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T23:58:49","slug":"advisers-heavily-favour-coalition-in-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/06\/20\/advisers-heavily-favour-coalition-in-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisers Heavily Favour Coalition in Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three quarters of financial advisers are likely to vote for the Liberal\/Nationals coalition in next weekend\u2019s election according to a survey released by Adviser Ratings.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, one in eight advisers have indicated they would vote for the Labor Party with one in ten stating they would vote for a minor party.<\/p>\n<p>The support for the Federal Coalition remains high despite it receiving criticism from advisers over proposed changes to super, Adviser Ratings stated after having received 1047 votes in a poll asking which party respondents would be voting for in the upcoming federal election.<\/p>\n<p>While the Coalition received 755 votes or 72%, the Labour Party received only 132 votes or 13%, double that of the Greens on 67 votes or 6% with 93 votes or 9% of advisers choosing \u2018Other Parties\u2019 to receive their vote on 2 July.<\/p>\n<h6>&#8220;&#8230;I don&#8217;t think either of the major parties have a good grip or understanding of the financial services industry&#8230;&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p>Adviser Ratings allowed those participating in the poll to comment and stated support for the major parties was mixed while some were sceptical with commenter saying, \u201cSadly I don&#8217;t think either of the major parties have a good grip or understanding of the financial services industry and especially with the advice sector\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Adviser Ratings poll heavily shadows the findings of a <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/05\/10\/33228\/\" target=\"_blank\">riskinfo poll conducted in early May<\/a> which also found 72% of advisers believing a returned Federal Government would deliver a better financial services industry for advisers and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>That poll also showed a lack of confidence in the Federal Opposition and strong skepticism towards both parties with only 4% stating a new Labor Government would be better for the sector, while 20% said it would make no difference as to which party held power and formed government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quarters of financial advisers are likely to vote for the Liberal\/Nationals coalition in next weekend\u2019s election according to a survey released by Adviser Ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33573","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=33573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}