From OnWallStreet
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Summary: Change will be here sooner than you might think, said TD Ameritrade Director of Financial Planning Nathan Harness in a panel on millennials at IMCA’s annual conference. This generation, born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, is poised to make up approximately 44% of the American workplace, Harness says.
From Investment Advisor
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Summary: While we all like to think that we’re unique and possibly extraordinary, I’ve found that most advisory firm owners tend to limit themselves due to a relatively short list of fears. The good news is that these fears usually can be managed once you’ve made the commitment to face them. Here are the most common fears that hold owner-advisors back:
From Financial Planning
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Summary: Independent planning firms will need more than 200,000 new advisers over the next 10 years to replace the baby boom founders who are now in their 60s, according to calculations by Mark Tibergien at Pershing Advisor Solutions. But where are they going to come from? College programs are graduating hundreds, not thousands, of new advisers.
From WealthManagement.com
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Summary: Many financial advisors reason that their high net worth clients prefer meeting only one or two times a year because the advisors have difficulty scheduling more frequent meetings with them. They are busy people, but in many cases, the reason for the reluctance is that the clients are not experiencing valuable results for the time expended.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Growth ambitions can easily cloud smart judgment calls. Sometimes advisers forget to look before they leap when they want to land a new deal or venture. And what happens next can result in wasted expenditures, hidden costs and ineffective results. Let's look deeper at a few mistakes firms make that could keep them from growing.
