College recruiting

Financial advisors can, and should, develop the profession by building relationships with high schools and universities.

In an unusually frank discussion, women executives from five major firms urged the industry to get involved in educating young people about wealth management.

Find out where this year's programs fall on the map.

Educators at colleges featured in Financial Planning's annual schools list offer up their favorite titles for young and prospective planners.

Courses at historically black colleges and universities are making the planning profession more accessible to students who’d never considered the career.

Even as the prospective client base grows more diverse, a majority of advisors remain male, white and over the age of 50.

Distinguishing features of undergraduate and graduate programs for advisors offered by leading colleges and universities.

Firms are doubling down on efforts to boost the ranks of women advisors.

It's time to face the music: RIAs expect 41% of their clients will be Gen-Xers or millennials in five years, according to a TD Ameritrade advisor sentiment study.

About 40% of clients will be Gen X-ers and millennials in five years — and the industry is facing a succession problem. Kate Healy, managing director of GenNext at TD Ameritrade Institutional, discusses how RIAs can prepare for the future.

Making the right hire can ease workloads and free up time to spend catering to clients' needs.

In a rapid-fire interview with Financial Planning, Moore paints a bright picture of the job market for young financial advisors and takes aim at the most "absurd" practice advisors still undertake with clients.

Firms can bring in great talent while assisting prospective CFPs with the experience requirement needed for the designation, according to a panel of experts at the board's Registered Program Conference.

Find out where this year's 95 CFP Board-registered financial planning degree programs at colleges and universities fall on the map.

This year's additions to our expanded annual list of CFP Board-registered degree programs.

Educators in CFP Board-registered degree programs are spearheading a classroom upheaval. Will they ultimately reshape the industry?

For firms recruiting planners or students making a career choice, check out our annual listing of CFP Board-certified degree programs.

Young people learn about credit cards, compound interest, the wide world of finance — and how advisors can help.

Thinking outside the box may help the budding advisor survive the lean early years.

Firms must offer them to tap new talent amid the industry’s succession problems, the custodian says.