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Summary: While there are criteria for who can join the classes of Schwab's Executive Leadership program, youth alone is not one of them. The two members of the program's inaugural class interviewed for this article are younger than the average advisor, but they’re not recent college graduates.
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Summary: The financial planning profession is a really wonderful profession with some very wonderful people. If you went into a mad scientist lab to create the perfect profession, you'd come up with everything that makes financial planning great.
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Summary: In searching for a junior partner for her practice a few years ago, advisor Donna Drosner went through several candidates, but none were the right fit.
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Summary: For firms looking to put recent graduates to work drafting financial plans, would-be advisors say that’s not what they want. Instead, they desire positions with a first-hand view ofhow financial services can help clients.
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Summary: The financial advisory business faces a classic good news/bad news situation ‐ one that presents both opportunities and challenges. On the good news side, the number of investors using a financial advisor is expected to increase 27 percent by 2022. Counter‐balancing that outlook is a looming shortage of experienced financial advisory professionals. Market research firm Cerulli projects that approximately 25 percent of advisors plan to retire or leave the industry within the next 10 years, and for every eight advisors who retire, only three are trained to replace them.
