Escalent
Escalent
Cogent Syndicated

Trajectory of Intergenerational Wealth Transfer™ leverages our ongoing survey of affluent investors to measure the percentage of affluent investors who expect to inherit assets and forecast future intent (invest versus save versus spend).

This is the second wave of our semiannual report which identifies and sizes estate planning opportunity segments among affluent investors, prioritizing their value for marketing by net worth, expected inheritance, and age. It explores key investment motivations, reveals which messages and services resonate most, and highlights top pain points in managing and disbursing assets via wills or trusts.

The first wave uncovers investors’ most favorable types of financial institutions as well as what motivates their investment decision-making choices and the types of information they are seeking on how best to manage their investments.

Value

The report will enable subscribers to:

Identify Opportunities
Know the size and profiles of the estate planning opportunity segments

Motivate Clients
Develop motivating messages to attract and retain estate planning clients

Target Market
Reach key opportunity segments through the media they attend to most often

Methodology

  • 4,938 affluent investors
  • Affluent investors defined as age 18+ with at least $100,000 in investable assets including DC plan and IRA assets and excluding the value of primary real estate
  • Quotas: Gender, age, education, region, pretax income and investable assets set to ensure a statistically representative sample of the affluent investor universe

Areas of Inquiry

Market: Size of opportunity for asset managers to strengthen their estate planning offering

  • Overall preparedness for estate planning (having a will or trust)
  • Estate planning opportunity segments, prioritized by net worth, expected inheritance, and age
  • Socioeconomic and life cycle profiles of estate planning opportunity segments

Motivations: Behavioral science motivations for investment decision-making

  • Investment decision emotional needs and barriers
  • Size and profile of emotional investment motivational segments
  • Profile of estate planning opportunity segments by investment emotional motivation segment

Messages: Key message themes that will resonate the most with each estate planning segment

  • Services affluent investors use or plan to use to set up their wills and trusts
  • Pain points in the asset disbursement process

Media: How best to reach each estate planning opportunity segment

  • Specific high tech (digital) and high touch (personal) touchpoints to use
  • What media to use to target opportunity segments, by age, net worth and emotional motivations

Subscription Details

Publishing Semiannually: Middle of the following month after semiannual data collection

Deliverables:

  • Summary report with commentary and strategic implications
  • Consultation with Cogent Syndicated industry experts

Investment: $25,000/semiannual report

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