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Summary: In its efforts to raise awareness, TDAI has awarded its third annual NextGen Financial Planning Grants and Scholarships: a $50,000 grant to the University of North Texas to expand an existing financial planning degree program; a $25,000 grant to Temple University in Philadelphia to help develop a new program; and 14 $5,000 scholarships to students across a variety of universities.
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Summary: A person with a strong mind is someone who can predict the way they will respond to events in life so they can choose the better alternative. They can look back at how they’ve responded to situations in the past, learn from those experiences, and apply that knowledge to future ones.
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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.
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Summary: Succession planning is an area I’ve found to be lacking in the financial advisory profession. A large number of advisers haven’t mapped out how they will transition their portfolio when they become unable to service their clients. Similar to writing your will, you may not view succession planning as an especially urgent or pleasant item on your agenda. But it is important to get a clear idea of who will manage your portfolio after you so you can better protect all interests associated with your practice.
