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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: More than two-thirds of financial advisors, 67%, say recent moves by regulators are having “minimal to no impact” on their risk assessment processes, according to a survey. Plus, 68% say Department of Labor and Securities and Exchange Commission actions have had “minimal to no impact on their client interactions regarding risk assessment.”
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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: 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: Ray Sclafani's ClientWise is a coaching business, so what's the difference between coaching and consulting? Sclafani calls that his “favorite question.”