Orchard Reports Online is a new database with consumer and market reports, statistical bulletins, and detailed consumer survey datasets offering specialist analysis and insights into the financial services/property, legal services, and travel sectors. In November 2018, the portal includes around 100 reports, bulletins, and datasets and another 100 will be added each year. The database combines IRN Research’s established Market Reports and Statistical Bulletins series...
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Around one-quarter of Investors take consumer financial advice Currently, 26% of Investors take professional advice, with advice most likely to be sought and taken by wealthy investors who lack confidence in their own investing abilities. But potential to expand the consumer financial advice market Only around one-in-ten Investors say they would never take professional financial advice whether that be from a human or computer (Robo-Advice),...
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New consumer investments report published IRN Research publish a new consumer research report on Consumer Investments. The aim of this report is to study how UK consumers behave when they make financial investments. Consumer investing behaviour is studied in terms of consumers who currently own investments and consumers who hold money in a form which could potentially be released to invest into investment products (e.g. held...
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The UK Wills, Probate & Trusts Market Report 2018 is the fifth edition of an annual research report from IRN Research. Here are some selected findings: The wills, trusts and probate market was worth over £1.2 billion in 2017. It is highly fragmented and served by thousands of mainly small providers, often unregulated. An IRN Research consumer survey in October 2018 found that when getting...
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Retirement Planning and Retail Financial Advice reports launched In October 2018, IRN Research have released two new reports on the consumer financial services market: Retirement Planning and the Retail Financial Advisors and Intermediaries. Retail Financial Advisors and Intermediaries This report considers the retail financial advice and intermediary market, covering regulated and unregulated advice offered to consumers when buying financial products or organising their financial affairs....
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Orchard Reports is a new series of reports on UK financial services/property and legal services sectors. The series combines our established Market Reports with a new series of Consumer Research Reports: the new series complements our existing series with results and analysis from detailed consumer research with insights into consumer behaviour, perceptions, brand awareness and use, and opinions. Consumer Research Reports – based on detailed...
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IRN publish three new Consumer Research reports on the mortgage market IRN Research have released three consumer research reports on the UK mortgage market – Improving the Mortgage Customer Journey, First-Time Buyer Mortgages and Existing Mortgage Holder Mortgages. All three reports provide crucial insights into the current mind-set of individuals who currently own a mortgage, have just taken out a mortgage or are planning to...
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The latest consumer research findings from IRN Research show that a clear majority of claim pay-outs – 65% – are up to £5,000, and these would fall under the new small claims limit set to be introduced in 2020. However, only 20% of survey respondents would be happy to take on a claim on their own through the small claims court. In particular, if individuals...
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UK Pension Market, a £190 billion market The UK pension market is large and diverse, with over 22 million employees in the UK having a workplace pension with most of these (around 16 million) enrolled in an occupational scheme. In 2017, over 2 million new pension products were sold to members of the public and UK pension funds received total contributions of almost £190 billion,...
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The UK Personal Injury Market Report 2018 is the fifth edition of an annual market report from IRN Research and provides an overview of the UK personal injury and clinical negligence markets. The personal injury market is a large market, worth almost £4bn annually, but it is struggling to generate any real growth: The new legislation set for April 2020 (increasing small claim limit for...
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