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Voices Are firms doing enough to keep top talent?

Added on July 2019 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: In my conversations with advisors and firm owners over the past year, I’ve heard a repeated lament: There is too much competition for top talent. Rivals are snapping up the strongest candidates, offering more money or more flexibility. Sometimes firms lose out because they are too slow to make an offer.

Voices Should you close your planning practice to new clients?

Added on June 2019 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: When I changed careers from medicine to financial planning in 2004, my big idea was to take care of my closest 20 physician friends — and not work too hard doing it. ​

Hire new college grads, and help plan for the future of your firm

Added on June 2019 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Do you have a plan for the future of your firm? Mentoring new college grads is a great answer.

4 Ways Interns Can, and Do, Help Advisors

Added on June 2019 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: It’s summer. Your number one client has a child who will graduate from college in a year, and they need to start building work experience. Your client asks you to do them a favor and take him on as an intern.

An inside job: Advisers are picking, grooming successors from within

Added on June 2019 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Bert Herzog III doesn't have plans to step aside anytime soon from Executive Wealth Management, the Brighton, Mich.-based advisory firm he founded in 1981. But the 61-year-old already has a plan in place to ensure that his $900-million investment advisory firm that manages money for 3,000 households will continue for decades after he leaves.

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