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Summary: We all know it: Technology is both extremely important and tedious. It's a headache that, when alleviated, lets us get on with the important work of planning for clients' financial lives, and lets us do it more effectively and efficiently than ever.But just deciding what to buy and when to upgrade — which is what advisers spend most of their money and time on — is only the start.
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Summary: Tony Robbins, the self-help guru nicknamed the “mahatma of motivation,” is taking his toothy smile and his message of self-empowerment to financial services, where he hopes to be the face of the registered investment adviser business.
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Summary: Launching its own online advice platform, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. is aiming to make low-cost, web-based advice even cheaper in the latest development in the quickly evolving business, but some industry watchers say it could rankle advisers who custody assets with the firm.
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Summary: Multiple studies have found millennials, the generation born after 1980, tend to be pretty conservative when it comes to investing. A March study by the FINRA Foundation found just 25% of millennials consider themselves risk takers, while a survey from MFS in February called those “recession babies” a “lost generation of investors.”
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Summary: INFOGRAPHIC: Survey results draw lines between the generations of advisers
