Cost and lack of understanding barriers to taking out insurance cover
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Cost and lack of understanding barriers to taking out insurance cover

A general lack of understanding of risk versus return combined with affordability worries remain the key factors keeping New Zealanders underinsured.

Tue, Nov 26th 2024 05:47PM
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Stay in touch with your Clients and Prospective Clients, not by email, not by text Pick up the phone and meet them for a coffee, or a wine…
1 month ago AlBean
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Longitude68 is right that AI is reshaping wealth advice fast - it's already widespread offshore, even if not yet here, and our industry will need to catch up quickly to deliver more deliberate, efficient client solutions. That said, most clients I encounter - largely Silent Generation and Boomers - will keep paying a relationship premium, within reason, to continue with a trusted advisor. Technology's real impact will be displacing advisers built around a single product or philosophy, which will be exposed as the commodities they are.
1 month ago Pragmatic
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1 month ago Amused
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you will never give or receive a warm handshake from AI when you are seeing a client for a terminal illness claim, and you both know you will never see each other again. AI can not look a widow in the eye and tell her it will take care of things, and it will be OK.
1 month ago Aggressively_passive
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A high level of my appointments are now being made with an AI agent. “Sarah” responds to inquiries by phone, converses with prospective clients then books them into my calendar. Yesterday a prospect asked Sarah whether she was an AI robot. Sarah responded with a yes and continued to tell him a joke, which he had requested. That interaction was enough for this engineer to proceed with a booked appointment with me. Only time before this old dog is replaced I guess.
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