Baby Boomers Looking for Younger Financial Advisors

a larger broker-dealer needs to add 2,000 to 3,000 financial advisors just to keep pace.

Baby boomer financial advisors are looking for younger advisors to mold and eventually have them take over their book of business. They are finding that younger advisors are scarce compared to how many baby boomers there are these days. The industry is having a difficult time trying to recruit younger advisors to make up for the retirement of older professionals.

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Financial Advisors: Plenty of Clients Won’t Hit Retirement Targets

With the downturn of the economy and markets these past few years coupled with the longer life expectancy, many clients are not going to reach their retirement goals.

According to Hilary Johnson’s article in Investment News, financial advisors are re-allocating funds for their clients to a more aggressive model to help their clients reach their retirement goals.  Is this best decision considering how volatile the markets still are? 

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