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Subscriber Briefings
Stretch your thinking with fast-paced Monthly Subscriber Briefings. Available to Trends™ Subscribers, these thought-provoking, live monthly discussions of 3 big ideas emerging from our latest research are presented by Hearts & Wallets Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and feature an engaging, moderated Idea Exchange, which allows participants to anonymously share insights from across the industry. Access recent replays for insights to achieve your objectives.
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The Power of Love
Broadcast date: Feb, 2019
This briefing on Valentine's Day examines competitive insights and data to win the hearts of customers. Learn the most frequent wants of consumers, insights into Top Performer firms, and trends and misundertandings in pricing.
Market Sizing and 7 Factors Driving Advice Buying During Change
Broadcast date: Jan, 2018
Master market sizing with the Portrait Grid™ and tap into the power of consumer relationships, which are more durable than assets. Combine sizing insights with key learnings on the 7 factors driving today's older advice shoppers and consumers verbatims on how they want to pay for advice.
Ringing in the New Year with Tech and Advice Insights
Broadcast date: Dec, 2018
Gain insight into the most important trends into sources of advice and information -- from the growing use of Paid Investment Professionals, the growth of online and especially mobile, and the link between comfort in mobile payments and investing behaviors.
Delivering on the Full Promise of Advice and Guidance
Broadcast date: Nov, 2018
Expand relationships with existing customers, attract younger consumers, and build out advice experience offerings with the Inside Advice® Grid, a clear, consistent advice and guidance choice architecture. Ask Hearts & Wallets Relationship Managers to learn more about advice and guidance assessments that can drive your business forward.
Mind the Advice Gap
Broadcast date: Oct, 2018
Develop meaningful solutions and advice through better understanding of top consumer goals, pain points and advice gaps.
The Good, the Bad and the Ways to Create Better Advice Experiences
Broadcast date: Sep, 2018
Enhance your advice and guidance experiences with a better understanding of what it takes to create leading advice experiences for all types of experiences. Spark innovation with insights from the forward-looking Top Ten Trends and Best Practices, derived from Hearts & Wallets qualitative and quantitative data on consumer insights and Inside Advice® marketplace execution.
Mission Possible: Making Investment Products Exciting Again
Broadcast date: Aug, 2018
Learn how to drive revenue and loyalty by increasing consumer awareness of investment products and by creating exciting products that engage investors.
Moneyball: Insights to Outsmart the Competition in Money Movement
Broadcast date: Jul, 2018
Harness actionable data on money movement to achieve your objectives. Gain insights on the growth of new accounts and the role of the service model and pricing.
Solo or Better Together: Friends & Finance
Broadcast date: Jun, 2018
Understand how friends talk about money, changing taboos, and the influences of pensions and increasing technology use. Gain insight into three investing product concepts with disruptive elements. And understand opportunities for asset managers to gain relevance.
Expectations vs. Realities of Retirement & Funding
Broadcast date: May, 2018
Retirement isn’t a one-size-fits-all. Gain an understanding of the range of retirement ages, surprises in retirement, and retirement realities to blend funding sources. Learn about personalizing advice and guidance around things that really matter.
Actionable Surprises in Household Finance
Broadcast date: Apr, 2018
Join Hearts & Wallets on a treasure hunt as we uncover gems of data and insights to personalize advice and innovate products. Gain an understanding of the top consumer unmet needs in household finance from a growing thirst for liquidity to funding education, credit card debt and unexpected expenses. Learn about consumer savings and the importance of real estate to the overall picture of consumer wealth.
Go for Gold: Top Performers on Loyalty and Other Success Metrics
Broadcast date: Mar, 2018
Understand what drives customer success metrics and who are the Top Performers among leading retail firms, or "stores." Explore the trend of consumers adding more stores, even as current store satisfaction increases.
Sizing for Success
Broadcast date: Feb, 2018
Learn how to identify the growth opportunities that hold the most potential for your firm with market sizing building blocks from Hearts & Wallets. This discussion features insights and case studies from the report Portrait™ U.S. Household Wealth: Essential Building Blocks to Empower Fact-Based Strategy and Prioritization.
When the Price Is Right
Broadcast date: Jan, 2018
Join Hearts & Wallets experts as they reveal the dramatic shifts in consumer beliefs about pricing. Consumers report major changes in how they pay for saving and investment products and how much they are paying over the past year. Learn about pricing innovation to drive market success, and the opportunities to connect consumer wants to solutions that meet needs.
Why Investing Experience Matters in Marketing, Product and Advice
Broadcast date: Dec, 2017
Experience in investing is a more important variable than often realized for advice and segmentation. Gain insight on the experience variable and with consumer reactions to four industry concepts on Health Savings Accounts, Education Funding for Grandparents, Active-Passive Hybrid Accounts and Communicating Changes for Mutual Funds.
Rise of Mobile & New Thinking on the Hybrid Investor
Broadcast date: Nov, 2017
This discussion tracks the growing consumer use of all sources of advice and information for finances. Learn about the growth in online and mobile, especially social media and podcasts among younger consumers. Explore the challenges of defining the "hybrid investor" and what that means for future segmentation and strategy.
HELP! Consumers Need Somebody
Broadcast date: Oct, 2017
Understand the top financial goals, concerns and difficulties of consumers. Learn how to support consumers who are prioritizing emergency funds and becoming more concerned about health care. Recognize the groups that are struggling most with widening advice gaps and what they need help with.
Product Strikes Back
Broadcast date: Sep, 2017
Product is regaining relevance but still lags asset class. Mutual funds are in a major decline. Despite the negative trends, opportunities exist to re-invent managed products. High cash invites creative solutions.
Three Big Ideas From the State of Advice and Guidance Report 2017
Broadcast date: Aug, 2017
Learn about Hearts & Wallets Inside Advice®, competitive benchmarking of advice and guidance experiences. Understand the keys to becoming the primary resource and the important people who are often overlooked in experiences. Get a preview of a new tool to resolve consumer confusion about experiences.
Consumer Views on Active vs. Passive and Impact Investing
Broadcast date: Jul, 2017
Discover the variable that drives consumers to value active management to gain new insights. Understand how products can be used as a vehicle to align investments goals with life goals. Broaden reach and appeal for impact investments with insight into performance goals.