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Trust Drivers

Building Retail Investor Trust in the New Choice-Driven Marketplace

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Report Overview

This Timely Topic Report identifies today’s top drivers of customer trust in specific saving, investing and advice relationships:

  • learn about today's Top 10 Trust Drivers
  • understand where to focus firm resources to build long-lasting customer relationships
  • gain insight on the measurable impacts of firm execution on trust builders and busters

Select Key Findings

  • Improved execution on key drivers can be quantified in potential points of increase in trust.
  • A top trust driver is satisfaction with "understands me and shares my values."
  • Having well-trained staff is an emerging driver that can have more impact on consumer trust than low fees.

About the Hearts & Wallets Investor Quantitative™ Database

The Hearts & Wallets Investor Quantitative™ Database (IQDB) is the comprehensive resource for understanding and analyzing behaviors and attitudes of retail savers and investors. With an annual sampling wave that includes all age and wealth segments, the database is now composed of over 50,000 U.S. households and 1,600 fields and derived variables stretching back to 2010. The database enables sizing and profiling of virtually any demographic, behavioral or attitudinal definition for consumer groups. Timely Topic Reports focus on emerging trends that change each year.

This new 56-page report features 42 exhibits.

Executive Summary

Methodology, Introduction

3-13

Table of Contents

14

Key Findings & Implications, Favorite Statistics, Related Research

15-19

1. Trust in saving and investing providers is improving, but there is an opportunity to both improve high trust as well as repair low trust.

Trust Rating of Primary and Secondary Providers: National, by Store

20-21

Trust Rating vs. Average Share of Wallet, Average Intent to Recommend, Average Intent to Invest More, Saving Rate, Seeking Help on “Choosing Appropriate Investments,” Seeking Help on “Retirement Planning”

22-26

2. Firm execution on metrics specific to relationships matters much more to trust than a consumer’s demographics or attitudes.

Trust Drivers: Consumer vs. Relationship Characteristics

27-30

Trust by Pricing Mechanism, National

31

Top 10 Trust Drivers

32

Inside Advice<sup>®</sup> Benchmarking Overall Scores: Average, Min, Max

33

3. The impact of consumer characteristics on trust has become more diffuse: more matter but each has a lower impact.

Impact of Consumer Characteristics on Trust

34

Trust Drivers: Consumer Characteristics

35-38

4. Firm execution on select relationship-specific metrics can be either trust builders, trust busters or both, depending on performance.

Top 10 Trust Drivers & Their Impact

39-50

Customer Satisfaction of Want from Firm “Is unbiased, puts my interests first,” by Select Stores and Trust Rating, by Select Stores

51

Appendix

Terminology & Definitions, Sample Sizes

52-55

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