From CNBC
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Summary: Get your happy on. Generation X may be more prepared for retirement than you've been hearing.Then again, maybe not. Late in 2013, Wells Fargo released its annual Middle Class Retirement Study. Included in the findings was the news that "middle-class Americans in their 30s seem to have the most realistic overall outlook for retirement."
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Generation X is like a surfer poised to catch a giant wave of income and inheritance. But they're hanging 10 without any professional help — and that's where advisers have an opportunity to leap aboard and keep them from wiping out.
From Think Advisor
Added on February 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: In the anguished debate over the value of a college education vs. high costs and declining opportunities, a new Pew Research Center study weighs in resoundingly on the side of higher education.
From On Wall Street
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Summary: As boomer clients near retirement age, advisors must help clients rethink their vision for their golden years. With longer life spans, the financial fact of life is that many boomers will still need to generate some earned income in retirement. They might not retire from work—even once they qualify for age-dependent benefits, such as Social Security and Medicare—but rather will retire to a different kind of work.
From InvestmentNews
Added on February 2014 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Peter J. Raimondi walked away from The Colony Group 20 years after he launched the Boston advisory firm with just nine clients. After expanding the firm to 650 clients and $900 million in assets under management, he wanted to shift the business focus toward asset management, a move that he had decided was key to further growth. His partners didn't agree, so he left.
