{"id":80823,"date":"2026-01-27T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=80823"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:35:21","slug":"modest-confidence-for-business-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/01\/27\/modest-confidence-for-business-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Modest Confidence for Business Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-358\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<div class=\"pollHeader\"><strong>By the end of 2026, my advice business will be in a better commercial position than it is now.<\/strong><\/div><div id=\"polls-358-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Agree <small>(65%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 65%\" title=\"Agree (65% | 11 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Disagree <small>(18%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 18%\" title=\"Disagree (18% | 3 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Not sure <small>(18%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 18%\" title=\"Not sure (18% | 3 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_358_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"cb5ed2af70\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Advisers are generally optimistic about the growth of their practice this year with 55% indicating they expect their advice business to be in a better commercial position by December.<\/p>\n<p>Our poll follows the release of IMF data that seems to show the country is facing higher inflation and lower than hoped-for economic growth \u2013 placing continued pressure on consumer finances.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the 55% who have a positive view of their business this year, 27% aren\u2019t sure if their business will be in a better position by the year-end, and 18% are not optimistic of seeing an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>While those in the know appear to be divided about the economy over the coming months, some of our major banks are predicting a rise in the official cash rate on February 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisers are generally optimistic about the growth of their practice this year with 55% indicating they expect their advice business to be in a better commercial position by December. Our poll follows the release of IMF data that seems to show the country is facing higher inflation and lower than hoped-for economic growth \u2013 placing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"category-polls"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80823","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=80823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}