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Summary: Almost 10 years ago, I wrote about a serious issue for advisors that I humbly believed was not getting the attention it deserved: the lack of career paths for young advisors. In this article, I present for your consideration another major issue that the industry, and especially owner-advisors, must address or suffer the consequences: the lack of an integrated marketing approach to grow their firms in the 21st century.
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Summary: Launching its own online advice platform, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. is aiming to make low-cost, web-based advice even cheaper in the latest development in the quickly evolving business, but some industry watchers say it could rankle advisers who custody assets with the firm.
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Summary: Even with a succession plan in place, some executives may still have a difficult time giving up the reins.
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Summary: The financial crisis did curious things to Wall Street. Firms were gone overnight, once-powerful CEOs were never heard from again, and a whole new regime of power reorganized itself from the chaos.
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Summary: Richard Sawyer, founder and past president of Norton Financial Services, a firm based in the greater Portland, Maine area, had worked in the financial services industry for more than two decades when a brush with cancer made him start seriously thinking about his retirement.
