{"id":7805,"date":"2017-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/advisers-envision-a-disrupted-advice-industry-if-amazon-shows-up\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T05:00:00","slug":"advisers-envision-a-disrupted-advice-industry-if-amazon-shows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/advisers-envision-a-disrupted-advice-industry-if-amazon-shows-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisers envision a disrupted advice industry if Amazon shows up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is constantly expanding its market &#8211; could the financial advice industry be next?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/article\/20170706\/FREE\/170709984\/advisers-envision-a-disrupted-advice-industry-if-amazon-shows-up\">Advisers envision a disrupted advice industry if Amazon shows up<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>News that Amazon is buying Whole Foods has some financial planners envisioning a transformed advice industry if the internet giant buys its way into the business of delivering personal financial services. The prospect is not much of a stretch given the online retailing behemoth already does lending &#8211; to the tune of $1 billion to small businesses over the last year &#8211; as well as payments and credit cards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is constantly expanding its market &#8211; could the financial advice industry be next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/storyimage\/CI\/20170706\/FREE\/170709984\/AR\/0\/AR-170709984.jpg&cci_ts=20170711160617","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[181],"class_list":{"0":"post-7805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}