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This was presented to the MRS Financial Services Research conference on 20.11.14, by Kate Downer from Consensus Research, and Carly Thurgood from Legal & General. The paper explores the challenges and the opportunities for engaging consumers in comms and literature development in a post-RDR landscape

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You can lead a horse to water …Engaging consumers in comms and literature development in a post-RDR landscape

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RDR: Aimed at introducing transparency and fairness

Increased transparencyand fairness

Empoweredconsumers

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… But it can still make life complicated

New terms

Can be unfamiliar and unintuitive

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There are some risks…

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A lot of consumers understand less than they realise

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Getting people to do something they don’t naturally

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Before you begin: think

Get the right people together, then hit the ground with some

energy

Give them time – don’t overload them

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During: subvert expectations

Don’t get hung up on the what

Mention the why

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Afterwards: reflect

Get people to reflect afterwards, use a rollover interview.

Give them headspace, some things will fall to them naturally.

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Overall: create an experience

Think about the bigger investor picture

Give it some thought. Make it an experience

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Carly Thurgood

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Kate Downer

Research [email protected]