Current low yield environment was cited as the reason for advisors preferring nontraditional investments.
The favored funds include emerging market bond funds and dividend-paying equities for clients.
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Further, on being queried about which investments they were most likely to recommend to clients in today’s low interest rate environment, nontraditional approaches to generating income dominated advisor responses.
Additionally, 84% of advisors are more likely to recommend dividing-paying equities, while 76% of advisors cited a willingness to recommend emerging market bonds or related bond funds over other asset classes.
50% of the respondents opined that the best way to get emerging market equity exposure is through funds investing directly in emerging markets companies and another 26% of advisors are inclined to use funds that invest in companies domiciled in developed countries outside of the US.
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