From wealthmanagement.com
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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.
From Financial Advisor IQ
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Summary: Of the 8,600 advisors who Cerulli tells us will retire every year through 2027, many have a younger advisor in the wings ready to take over their longtime clients. But waiting until the handoff is imminent can make for a tough conversation — and possibly even drive the client away, experts say. They recommend a number of strategies to make the transition as smooth as possible.
From Think Advisor
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Summary: The average age of financial advisors creeps higher each year, approaching the traditional age of retirement. A growing chorus of voices have warned of the looming onslaught of advisors retiring, the lack of young talent to take over their firms, and thus a wave of advisory firms that will come up for sale resulting in a competitive buyer’s market that will make advisors regret having waited to sel
From Financial Advisor IQ
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Summary: The recruiting crisis in the financial-advice industry isn’t fueled by disdain so much as by ignorance, says Fidelity Investments. After the fund manager surveyed nearly 800 recent college grads and young professionals, it concluded that the talent shortage is due to a lack of awareness about the profession, not to a lack of interest. In fact, only 20% of those polled had even a rough sense of what advisors do.
From Financial Advisor IQ
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Summary: Small and medium-size RIAs may have to start formulating succession plans to be in regulatory compliance. If state financial regulators have their way, firms under their purview — essentially RIAs with less than $100 million under management — will have to show they’ve made arrangements to ensure that clients and their assets are safe if a lone practitioner gets seriously ill, has an accident or dies, writes Financial Planning.
