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Summary: Registered investment advisors are coming off another year of double-digit growth in clients, revenue and assets, and they have a largely positive outlook for the overall U.S. economy, according a survey by TD Ameritrade Institutional.
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Summary: Product providers’ efforts to reach financial advisors may be for naught if they don’t ease up on how often they’re communicating with them. A report released in January by Practical Perspectives found that advisors are overwhelmed by the contact they get from various asset managers, insurance companies and other product providers.
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Summary: The terrain for financial advisors is shifting. The ubiquitous adoption of smartphones and the use of social media have changed the way advisors connect with clients.To find out what advisors and clients are thinking, EY’s 2014 Wealth Management Survey asked both groups a series of questions.
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Summary: InvestmentNews hosted a roundtable of technology executives from independent broker-dealers and custodians to learn about the biggest issues they're tackling, what they're hearing from advisers and what they plan to focus on next. Here's what they had to say:
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Summary: Financial adviser headcount fell by 1.9% in 2013 to 287,119 advisers, according to the most recent data from Cerulli Associates. The research firm estimates about 5,500 advisers left the industry and were not replaced by new recruits, even as assets under management grew by 13% that year to $14 trillion.
