{"id":9077,"date":"2011-01-25T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2021-01-22T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:37:47","slug":"new-research-highlights-value-of-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2011\/01\/25\/new-research-highlights-value-of-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Highlights Value of Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research has shown a clear link between\u00a0consumers holding adequate levels of insurance cover and their choice to receive\u00a0advice from a financial adviser.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Drawn from the Suncorp Life Confidence Index, based on a survey of 2,000 working Australians, Asteron has revealed consumers who used a financial adviser were twice as likely to be adequately insured than those who did not, and were also confident that their family would be financially secure in the event of a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings from the\u00a0survey included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>42% of people who had used a financial adviser in the last 12 months had life insurance and were also confident they held\u00a0sufficient cover to provide for their family in the event of a crisis<\/li>\n<li>Of those\u00a0who had not sought any financial advice, only 19% had life insurance (and it was in question as to whether this 19% held adequate cover levels)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>23% of people who had not seen an advisor had never even considered the need for life insurance<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>23% of people who had not seen an advisor had never even considered the need for life insurance<\/li>\n<li>More than half of the respondents lacked any confidence that they could find equivalent employment in three months if they were to lose their job<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These outcomes\u00a0prompted\u00a0Asteron&#8217;s Executive General Manager, <strong>Jordan Hawke<\/strong>,\u00a0to again emphasise the value and importance of insurance and the differences it makes in peoples&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>The survey highlights the fact that those consumers who choose to have financial advisers are more likely to have the opportunity of dignity and financial and lifestyle choices when it matters the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has shown a clear link between\u00a0consumers holding adequate levels of insurance cover and their choice to receive\u00a0advice from a financial adviser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-company-news","category-general","headers-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077","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=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}