{"id":39323,"date":"2017-12-11T11:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T00:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=39323"},"modified":"2017-12-13T07:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:28:38","slug":"royal-commission-receives-support-from-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/12\/11\/royal-commission-receives-support-from-advisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Commission Receives Support From Advisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-193\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<div class=\"pollHeader\"><strong>Do you support the Government's decision to establish a Royal Commission into the alleged misconduct of Australia's banking and financial services sector?<\/strong><\/div><div id=\"polls-193-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Yes <small>(55%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 55%\" title=\"Yes (55% | 109 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>No <small>(34%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 34%\" title=\"No (34% | 66 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Not sure <small>(11%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 11%\" title=\"Not sure (11% | 22 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_193_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"2a74b01fa1\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Advisers have given their qualified support to the recently-announced Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Services sector.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As we go to print, around half of those voting in our latest poll (51%) support the Government&#8217;s decision to go ahead with the Royal Commission, while 36% are against the decision and 13% are on the fence.<\/p>\n<p>The comments we&#8217;ve received in response to this poll reflect a certain resignation and weariness within the adviser community as the life insurance industry prepares itself for the commencement of the Life Insurance Framework transition period.<\/p>\n<p>The general feeling from advisers, based on the poll comments and other feedback we&#8217;ve received, seems to be that a Royal Commission into Banking and Financial Services will benefit the community as long as the focus of the Commission&#8217;s investigations is directed towards the conduct of the banking sector. However, there also appears to exist a certain level of cynicism around the entire process and the eventual value (or lack of it) that many advisers believe will emerge from the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to have your say, our poll remains open for a while longer as we approach the end of 2017 and look towards the changes to the sector that will be taking place in 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisers have given their qualified support to the recently-announced Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Services sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,49],"tags":[4247],"class_list":["post-39323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-compliance-regulation","category-polls","tag-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323","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=39323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}