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Summary: More advisors are writing out their succession plans; 44 percent of RIAs indicated they have a documented plan, up from 31 percent last year, according to WealthManagement.com’s 2014 AdvisorBenchmarking RIA Trend Report, a survey of about 400 RIAs
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Summary: To financial advisers Stephanie Guerin and Kelly Hokanson, less means more. When the duo launched their firm, The Planned Approach, some 12 years ago in Prairie Village, Kan., they were in intense growth mode from day one. “We took anyone who breathed as clients,” Ms. Guerin says.
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Summary: n a perfect world, all new planners would be paired with senior advisors who were invested in helping trainees succeed. These sage advisors would bring new hires to meetings as observers, meticulously review the trainees’ client planning work and offer generous commentary and guidance.
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Summary: Large registered investment advisors predict that consolidation in the financial services industry will have accelerated in the year ended June 2015, according to a survey by TD Ameritrade Institutional released Thursday.
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Summary: Socially responsible investing, often called SRI, refers to "investments or investment strategies that seek to generate a financial return and positive environmental and social benefits," according to the Calvert Foundation, a community development financial institution.
