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Summary: An Ohio adviser is using a formal incentive program to encourage her female clients to boost their financial education. Paula Chesser, an adviser with Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. in Akron, Ohio, created a Savvy Women's Club that hosts eight workshops or seminars for her female clients on topics such as confronting risk in a portfolio and a “Guide to the Financial Markets.”
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Summary: The financial crisis has had an enormous impact on millennials’ attitudes towards investing, saving and success, presenting both opportunities and challenges for financial advisors, a new survey by UBS Investor Watch finds.
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Summary: It’s probably the most common scenario in independent advisory firms today: employee goes to firm owner demanding a raise, a promotion, partnership in the firm or some combination thereof. Owner, caught unprepared, gives a non-response, usually including a promise to get back to the employee. From an employee’s perspective, the very worst thing—worse than long hours, unfriendly coworkers or even a micro-managing boss—is uncertainty.
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Summary: Every year brings its own set of challenges, as unseen trends suddenly emerge while older trends come to fruition, as unexpected market events make fools of the prognosticators and disruptive technologies change our lives. Here are 10 issues to think about as we enter 2014 – offered with humility and respect for the world's ability to surprise us.
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Summary: For many Millennials (people ages 21 to 36), their experience with the markets has been volatility and crashes; they’ve also dealt with job security issues. That would explain whey they tend to me more conservative investors. According to the latest UBS Investor Watch report, Millennials are also more likely to describe themselves as conservative, similar to the WWII generation.
