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Summary: The roots of financial planning are in those insurance agents and stockbrokers who sought out a way to deliver better advice and guidance to their clients. Similarly, the roots of financial planning education have long been in ‘adult education’ certificate programs that took experienced and active advisors back to school to gain the educational knowledge they needed to sit for the CFP exam and earn their CFP certification.
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Summary: The U.S. economy gained 304,000 jobs in April, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be easy for many individuals to find employment in 2014 or over the next decade. To boost your chances, of course, it’s probably worth targeting jobs that are experiencing rapid growth and have decent pay scales – such as work as a financial advisor.
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Summary: I have spent countless hours over the last several years doing research on the brokerage industry. In fact, if you add up all the research my entire team has done we have invested over 7,000 hours. We have discovered a lot of interesting things about many different firms.
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Summary: Financial advisor Carrie Gallaway left Morgan Stanley in March to join Lebenthal Wealth Advisors, a New York-based RIA with more than $2 billion in assets under management. She and her business partner, Andrew Stern, had been with Morgan Stanley and predecessor firms for more than 15 years and managed about $1.2 billion. Lebenthal uses RBC Wealth Management and Pershing as its main custodians, and investment platforms including Envestnet, FolioDynamix and Fortigent.
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Summary: As the late afternoon sunlight casts shadows through the lecture hall, a handful of students at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., watch their professor fill a whiteboard with the words “broker,” “wirehouse,” “insurance,” “RIAs” and “suitability.” Indeed, making financial planning a viable academic pursuit for undergraduates is meant to overcome one of the industry’s big obstacles: the fact that young people just don’t seem that interested in joining it.
