While retirement account holders and other investors are perfectly happy to turn to the Internet to research financial products, they prefer face-to-face meetings when it comes to dealing with an advisor. 

That's according to new research for Signator Investors Inc., an independent broker-dealer owned by John Hancock, the U.S. division of Manulife. 

That's not to say that investors, particularly younger ones, don't rely on the Internet to handle a lot of their financial lives.

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