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DPL's Annual RIA Retirement Planning Survey Finds Many Advisors Struggle With New Interest Rate RealitiesDPL Financial Partners, the leading insurance network for registered investment advisors (RIAs), today released findings from its third annual survey of financial advisors that suggest many are finding it challenging to evolve investment strategies to meet client needs for secure, predictable retirement income and protection from market volatility. Based on responses from more than 200 advisors, the study measured their retirement planning attitudes and practices, their understanding of clients' retirement income concerns and priorities, and their strategies to meet clients' income needs. "Taking a step back and looking at the responses as a whole, it appears that advisors still largely rely on traditional, investment-only strategies to generate income for clients, and that's getting harder and harder to do in today's interest rate environment," said DPL Founder and CEO David Lau. "Advisors have generally done a great job helping clients accumulate and grow wealth for retirement, but with the low interest rate environment, traditional safe assets like cash and bonds can't fund retirement income any longer, leading many advisors to add riskier assets to retirement portfolios." Lau noted that advisors said they sell equity positions to generate cash (44%) and allocate more heavily to dividend paying stocks (45%) to bridge the shortfall in retirement income brought about by low interest rates. Many also indicated they have invested client assets in riskier fixed income instruments in a search for yield. /p>
Among other findings from the survey:
The RIA Retirement Planning Survey Executive Summary and Key Findings is accessible HERE. About DPL Financial Partners DPL Financial Partners is the first and leading RIA turnkey insurance management platform that brings commission-free insurance solutions from a variety of the nation's top carriers to RIA practices. DPL has created a marketplace of commission-free insurance products that enables RIAs to incorporate insurance and annuities into their practices to more holistically serve their clients. Clients benefit from products that offer competitive pricing and fiduciary implementation rather than commissioned, sales-driven ones. www.dplfp.com View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200730005709/en/ |