October 28, 2009, Cover Stories
Unsolved Mystery
In Matt Greenwald's "mystery shopper" experiment, near-retirement couples met with eight financial advisors to find out if they would recommend income annuities. None did.
The “mystery shopper” is one of the oldest and most effective research tools. You can learn a lot simply by having someone pose as a naïve consumer and catch a seller off-guard.
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