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Summary: Advisers looking to grow their businesses should carefully plot the expansion of their practice. They should expect to suffer a little, too.Business leaders who have succeeded in scaling their companies — growing, say, from two people on staff to 200 — did so with a focus on spreading their convictions, not their geographic reach, two professors at the Stanford Graduate School of Business say in a book due out next month.
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Summary: New social media tools have made it possible for advisors to throw more effective events than ever before, practice management consultant Dan Klein told a packed room of advisors at the TD Ameritrade Institutional conference here on Friday morning. Rather than simply hoping clients would bring qualified prospects as guests, an advisor can research a supportive client's contacts on LinkedIn, and then suggest specific invitees.
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Summary: Across the industry, planning firms are scrambling to find new talent. Since experienced advisors are hard to attract and often command big pay packages, many firms are shifting their recruiting efforts to focus on younger advisors, with few (if any) existing clients.
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Summary: Even if colleges ramp up degree programs in financial planning and related fields, advisory firms are going to have to rethink their hiring philosophies to meet the growing demand for investment advice, according to industry representatives and academics.
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Summary: In a new survey commissioned by Bentley University, 58% of respondents, including business decision makers, recruiters, and students, gave recent college graduates a letter grade of “C” or lower on their preparedness for their first jobs.Bentley’s research informed the following recommendations for better preparing students to succeed in the work place.
