From Financial Planning
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Summary: Ric Edelman is looking to hire a successor.The founder of one the largest RIAs in the country is actively headhunting for a new president and chief operating officer for Edelman Financial Group -- and hopes the new hire will ultimately replace Edelman himself as CEO.
From Financial Advisor IQ
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Summary: Hiring millennials can pump new life into an aging advisory workforce. Keeping them around and making sure they’ll succeed is another matter, says The Wall Street Journal.
From Wall Street Journal Online
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Summary: Not all of the interaction between advisers and clients is qualitative. For the many quantitative tasks that can eat up precious time, I think hiring an intern can be a great solution. Interns are especially useful for projects that are repeatable and finite. For example, this summer my firm's two interns are updating all of our investment-policy documents, a task we perform every three years.
From Wall Street Journal Online
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Summary: When Jim Meehan joined 1847Financial as managing partner in 2011, he started a mission to ramp up the firm's life-insurance production. As of the end of last year, that production was up threefold--a success factor he credits partly to the nearly 40 millennial-aged financial advisers he hired.
From Financial Planning
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Summary:Worried about a shortage of qualified young advisor talent? Consider hiring younger staff, and then encouraging -- or even requiring -- junior associates to study and sit for the CFP exam and complete their experience requirements.That was one of the takeaways from a new survey of recent graduates the CFP Board released Friday at its annual conference for registered educational programs.
