Investment Fraud Awareness
Robo-Adviser Attitudes: Agreement that an in-person adviser can
help with performance is down 12 points since 2017 to 37%
Q
Please indicate if you agree or disagree with the following statements?*
[asked of all respondents; national n=5,000, MB n=500]
111
An in-person adviser can
help my investments
perform better than an
online investment adviser
National
Total agree
Manitoba
Total agree
2020 12%
26%
32%
2% 22%
6%
38%
2020
12% 24%
34%
7%
21%
2%
37%
2017
14%
30%
28%
2% 22%
4%
44%
2017 16%
5%
33%
23%
1% 23%
49%
Online investment advisers
charge lower fees than in-
person advisers
2020 7% 20%
21%
2%
47%
27%
2020 4% 17%
3%
49%
22%
4%
23% 3%
2017 5% 17%
24% 4%2%
49%
22%
2017 4% 14%
3%
55%
21%
2%
18%
Using an online investment
2020 5% 14%
25%
20% 12%
24%
19%
2020 2% 14%
24%
20% 15%
25%
16%
adviser is not any riskier
than investing through an
in-person adviser
2017 4% 15%
28%
16% 9%
28%
19%
2017
5% 14%
20%
18% 11%
32%
19%
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
I Strongly disagree
Don't know
*Note: In 2017, first question text was "An in-person adviser can help my investments perform better than an automated online investing service"; second was
"Robo-advisers charge lower fees than in-person advisers"; third was "Automated online investing is not any riskier than investing through an in-person adviser"
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