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Solving the Recruiting Crisis Calls for New Attitudes

From Financial Advisor IQ
Added on October 2014 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: The recruiting crisis in the financial-advice industry isn’t fueled by disdain so much as by ignorance, says Fidelity Investments. After the fund manager surveyed nearly 800 recent college grads and young professionals, it concluded that the talent shortage is due to a lack of awareness about the profession, not to a lack of interest. In fact, only 20% of those polled had even a rough sense of what advisors do.

Why Advisory Firms Need 'Real' CEOs

From Financial Advisor Magazine
Added on October 2014 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: When we looked at the data from the latest compensation survey produced here at the Ensemble Practice LLC, we found that the second most common job in the advisory industry is “CEO.” Nearly every firm in the survey had a CEO. Yet when we speak with the partners (owners) of advisory firms, most tell us that there are very few “real” CEOs in the industry.

Top 5 Reasons For Working at an RIA Firm

From wealthmanagement.com
Added on October 2014 in Join an RIA
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Summary: Nearly half of advisors (49 percent) said working at a smaller company was the important reason in choosing to work for an RIA, the Schwab study found. This is even higher among younger respondents, with 68 percent of FAs under 40 saying they want to work for a smaller company.

Millennials Growing Out of Financial Fears

From Think Advisor
Added on October 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Multiple studies have found millennials, the generation born after 1980, tend to be pretty conservative when it comes to investing. A March study by the FINRA Foundation found just 25% of millennials consider themselves risk takers, while a survey from MFS in February called those “recession babies” a “lost generation of investors.”

The differences between NextGen and senior advisers

From InvestmentNews
Added on October 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: INFOGRAPHIC: Survey results draw lines between the generations of advisers

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