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What are the Keys to a Successful Family Business Succession?

Added on April 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: When it is time to get serious about getting serious about your business succession, you could do not better than follow the advice in a Smart Business article on the subject. Your family, key employees, and everyone else who interacts with your business are all looking to you ... to make sure it survives without you. ​

High schoolers to test whether they're smarter than a financial adviser

Added on April 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: About 100 high school students will learn firsthand what life as an adviser is like this summer through an industry program aimed at showing them that financial planning is very different than what they see in movies like "The Wolf of Wall Street."

How Advisory Firms Are Responding to Demographic Challenges

Added on April 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Throughout SIFMA’s Private Client Conference in New York City Thursday were discussions about the major demographic challenges confronting the financial advisory industry and about how firms are responding.  The issues are the same ones that the industry has been facing for some years now, but they are becoming more critical as the populations of advisors and their clients age and American society grows more diverse.

Why You Should Get a Continuity Plan in Place This Year

Added on April 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: It’s not surprising that financial advisors are reluctant to face their own mortality, but you aren’t doing yourself—or your clients—any favors by putting off succession and continuity planning. If you find the idea of planning your retirement (succession) from the business too daunting right now, at the very least, you should get a continuity plan in place this year. 

How to Increase Financial Literacy? Start Young, Train Teachers

Added on April 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: “Decisions about paying for higher education can have lasting impact on individuals and our economy,” according to the latest “Homeroom” blog from the U.S. Department of Education noting that “April is National Financial Capability Month.”

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