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Summary: Fifty-six percent of advisors responding to Hartford Funds’ third annual Advisor Anxiety Survey, released Monday, reported that they focused on attracting millennial clients “less than other age groups” or “not at all” even as they identified prospects in that category.
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Summary: New research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates suggests that technology innovations will help grow — not hinder —an advisor’s business.
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Summary: The investment-advice business is a good business to be in indeed: According to a recent study of all SEC-registered investment advisors, the number of firms, clients and assets under management have all showed healthy growth over the past year. The number of clients served by RIAs grew by 6.8%, or almost two million, to nearly 30 million.
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Summary: Despite tremendous growth in automated investing technology, there are still many advisors not willing to cede control of clients’ portfolios to a so-called robo advisor.
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Summary: Consolidation among financial advisory firms will not only continue in the coming years but also accelerate, according to LPL executives at the firm’s Focus 2015 conference in Boston. But as that industry trend continues, reducing the number of firms, LPL itself expects to recruit more advisors, especially in its RIA hybrid channel, its fastest growing.
