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Summary: The wealth management market is thriving, as older baby boomers are retiring and the 50-something late boomers are hitting the last big earning years of their careers — all at a time when younger investors are grappling with the difficulties of a very slow-growing economy. It all means there is ample need for financial advice.
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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: The wealth management operation at Barclays may have been a small piece of the British bank's business. But at one point it had become a rising star, one which now appears to be falling.
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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.
