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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.
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Summary: Though initially slow to gather investor assets, low-cost robo-advisors have begun to accumulate an impressive amount over the past year or so. The largest, Wealthfront, just topped $2 billion under management. More impressive, big platform providers like Fidelity and Envestnet have bought or cut deals with robos as the backbone for consumer or institutional offerings.
