Archive for June, 2009

I’ve received a number of e-mails about my May column “Coming of Age” in which I pointed out that the recent economic downturn has flip-flopped the job market for young financial planners: Instead of a “seller’s market” where they had many job offers and commanded high compensation packages, we now have a “buyers” market, in which a limited number of job opportunities put potential employers in the proverbial driver’s seat.

Many of the e-mails ask the same question: Since the down markets affect firm economics, too, how do advisors decide when is the right time to hire a new advisor?

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