{"id":76655,"date":"2025-04-01T13:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=76655"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:13:38","slug":"new-business-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/04\/01\/new-business-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Poll &#8211; New Business Growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-342\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<div class=\"pollHeader\"><strong>I can see signs in my own business that the life insurance industry is growing again for the first time in many years.<\/strong><\/div><div id=\"polls-342-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Disagree <small>(60%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 60%\" title=\"Disagree (60% | 49 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Agree <small>(23%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 23%\" title=\"Agree (23% | 19 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Not sure <small>(17%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 17%\" title=\"Not sure (17% | 14 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_342_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"6cbb1928c0\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Those attending last month&#8217;s Riskinfocus 25 conferences heard the life industry is growing again following a period of stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the events that were held across the country, TAL\u2019s Chief Executive, Individual Life,\u00a0<strong>Gavin Teichner<\/strong>, referenced a range factors relating to new business, more advisers writing life insurance, and enhanced licensee support.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to figures indicating an 8.3% increase in life insurance new business across the sector and said $316m in new business sales were written last year.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s your personal experience? \u00a0Are you seeing a similar uptick in your own advice business?<\/p>\n<p>See our report: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/03\/25\/positive-signs-for-risk-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positive Signs for Risk Advice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those attending last month&#8217;s Riskinfocus 25 conferences heard the life industry is growing again following a period of stagnation. Speaking at the events that were held across the country, TAL\u2019s Chief Executive, Individual Life,\u00a0Gavin Teichner, referenced a range factors relating to new business, more advisers writing life insurance, and enhanced licensee support. He pointed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76655","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}