InvestmentNews Article: When will our industry grow up?

Nov 12, 2019

InvestmentNews Article: When will our industry grow up?

From training young advisors to better ways to serve clients, Allworth Financial co-CEO Scott Hanson asks the financial services industry to take a hard look at itself and its practices.

The article reads:

When will our industry grow up?
This past week, I met an incredible young man who is just two years out of college. So far, he seems to have done all the right things, including studying finance, earning his certified financial planner designation and getting himself hired at one of the large brokerage houses.
Yet sitting there over coffee, his entire future ahead of him, he asked me where he’d gone wrong.
Scott Hanson, Co-Founder, Allworth Financial

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