April:

Singletons: 50 Million Single-Headed Households

March:

Financial Services and Smartphones

February:

In Trying Times, Consumers Vote with Their Dollars

January:

Uh-Oh! Consumers' Concerns about Financial Crimes Escalate

December:

Uh-Oh! Younger and Older Boomers Reach Parity in Home Equity

November:

Uh-Oh! Multigenerational Households: Growing in Number and Financially Challenged

October:

Uh-Oh! Where Have All the Investors Gone?

September:

Uh-Oh! Consumer Reaction to Stock Market Uncertainty Is a Drop in Consumer Confidence

August:

Uh-Oh! Are Basic Financial Needs Being Met?

July:

Uh-Oh! Consumer Spending Is Not Coming Back Anytime Soon

June:

Uh-Oh! Interest in Making Investment Decisions Wanes, Even among Households with $5+ Million in Assets

May:

Uh-Oh! Hispanic Households Are Not Advice Oriented

April:

Uh-Oh! Are the Emerging Affluent the Last Bastion of the Middle Class?

March:

Uh-Oh! Trust in Financial Providers Has Declined

February:

Uh-Oh! Some Consumers Have Dug Themselves into a Hole

January:

Uh-Oh! Even More Households Disengage with Financial Services

December:

Making Money in a Contracting Market with Declining Margins

November:

The Unbanked and the Underbanked

October:

• How Rich Are the Boomers?
• More Will Rely on Social Security
• The New Data Are Almost Here

September:

• Opportunity: Hispanic Households and Life Insurance
• Exclusive Report: Boomers Near Retirement

August:

• What If the Wealthy Stop Spending?
• Don't Worry, Be Happy
• CFD Hosts Harnessing the Power of Leverage Points in the New Normal Webinar

July:

• The Dynamic Challenge of Serving Child-Free Households
• The Changing Face of Retirement
• Behavioral Finance and the MacroMonitor Webinar

June:

• Affluent Households Are Not Paying Attention
• The Crisis in Trust Affects Everyone
• CFD Hosts Financial Needs in the New Normal Webinar

May:

• Underwater Homeowners Are Under the Gun
• Over Half of Households Pay a Professional to Do Their Taxes
• Not Everyone Is in Dire Straits

April:

• VALS™ Highlights Report: Young Adults and the Financial Crisis
• Resistance to Risk Returns for Most People

Feb/Mar:

• Consumers Still Struggling with Mortgage Debt
• Social Networks for Marketing To Gen X and Gen Y
• Pent-Up Demand for Housing

January:

• Online Investing 2.0
• The New Battle of the Sexes: Credit Cards
• The New Normal

Nov/Dec:

• Online Account Aggregators and Electronic Transactions to End Consolidation?
• 529 Plan Owners at Risk
• Financial-Transaction Evolution

October:

• The Rational Consumer: Spending, Saving, and Investing
• Attracting Brokerage-Oriented Households: An Uphill Battle
• Biggest Losers: Those Who Don't Obtain Advice from a Financial Professional

September:

• Is Health-Care Reform Warranted?
• What Defines a Successful Retiree?
• The Economic Downturn Affects Wealth: One Year Later

August:

• Managing Mistrust in Financial Professionals
• Introducing CFD's Attitudinal Themes
• Household Debt Creating Challenges for Business Owners

July:

• "Retired" Workers Seek Employment
• Credit Cards Remain Essential
• Many Households Face Dueling Savings Goals

June:

• Credit-Card Use Shifting before Legislation Takes Effect
• Consumers' Cutting Back
• Socially Responsible Investing

April/May:

• How Will the Market Downturn Affect Young Investors?
• Debit Cards and Online Banking Grow in New Era of Thrift
• Households Remain Surprisingly Optimistic

March:

• Debt-Free Households Represent an Overlooked Marketing Opportunity
• Households' Mistrust of Investment Professionals Has Increased
• Down Market Creates Opportunity for Consumer-Oriented Firms

February:

• Shifting Focus to the New Consumer
• Glancing at the 2008–09 Affluent Core Customers Segments
• Reacting to the Financial Crisis: Younger Households Quicker to Face the Music

January:

• Winning Back Women's Trust Will Be a Challenge
• Surprisingly, Households' Use of Advice Remains Relatively Flat in 2008
• Pension Plans Decline as Salary-Reduction Plans Increase

December:

• Released: The 2008–09 MacroMonitor Data!
• Planning for Retirement Gaining Importance for Gen X/Y
• Whither Direct Marketing?

November:

• Tight Credit Markets Make Peer-to-Peer Lending an Attractive Option for Consumer Loans
• Declining Home Values May Mean Affluent-Market Contraction
• CFD Captures Consumer Sentiments during These Challenging Financial Times

October:

• Growing Number of Education Loans Leads to an Increased Need for Financial Advice
• Housing Downturn Makes Retirement a Daunting Proposition for Many Households
• Banks Should Consider Target When Creating Card Incentives

August:

• Cross-Selling and Consolidation Present Challenges and Opportunities for Large Banks
• High-Income Households Witness Steep Growth in Debt-Service Ratio
• Hard Times Push Consumers toward Seeking Financial Advice

July:

• Retirement Age Grows Older
• "Full Nest" Adds Strain to Retirement Planning
• Workers Learn to Diversify from Company Stock

June:

• 401(k) Contributions May Be in Jeopardy
• Direct Marketing Devolves
• Peer-to-Peer Lending: Which Way Will It Go?

May:

• Higher Education: Further Out of Reach for More U.S. Households?
• Vehicle-Loan Deals for Credit-Challenged Consumers
• Cloudy Retirement Prospects for Women

April:

• Green Investing: Are Investors Putting Their Money Where Their Mouths Are?
• Will Nontraditional Lending Sources Fill the Credit Void?
• How Successful Is Automatic 401(k) Enrollment?

March:

• Households Unlikely to Go on a Spending Spree with Their Tax Rebate
• Mass Affluent Vulnerable to High-Credit-Card–Debt Malaise
• No Savings Cushion for Nearly Three in Ten U.S. Households

February:

• Winners and Losers in the Real Estate Meltdown
• Boomers: Ready to Retire?
• Regulation and Demographics: Changing the Financial Landscape

January:

• Reverse Mortgages Likely to Grow with Next Generation of Retirees
• Delegators, Collaborators, and the Self-Reliant
• Implications of Job Trends

November:

• ATM or Debit Card Use Enhances Cross-Selling at the Primary Bank
• Financial Ads Miss the Mark
• Households That Have Fewer Life Events Buy Less Individual Life Insurance

September:

• Then and Now: Almost 30 Years Later
• Bill Payment Options: Toward a Cashless, Paper-Free Environment
• U.S. Households: Few in Order

August:

• Direct Marketing Gains Ground
• Age: The Most Significant Difference among Owners of Subprime Mortgages
• Retiree Life Events and Transactions

July:

• Life Insurance: Stable Trend—Changing Role
• Peer-to-Peer Lending on the Rise
• Sex Differences in Financial Decision Making

June:

• The New Entrepreneurial Challenge
• Strong Debit-Card Market Penetration as ATM Cards Decline
• Health-Care Back on the Political Agenda

May:

• Boomers and Real Estate
• IRA Rollover Market Yet to "Boom"
• Younger Boomers and Growth in Annuities

April:

• Debt Levels on the Rise across All Life Stages
• Consumer Reengagement?
• Banks Showing Signs of Organic Growth

March:

• Life Stage Trends: Changes and Implications
• Where Consumers Are Putting Their Savings and Investments
• Correlation: Use of Financial Advisors and Recent Life Events

February:

• In the past ten years the number of households caring for dependent adults has increased from 5.5 million to over 17 million.
• Gen X and Gen Y households are more likely than other age cohorts to own a Health Savings Account.
• Except for online banking, the allure of using the Internet for financial services appears to have faded among many consumers.