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Rough exit ahead for wealth managers, study contends

All but 7% of the nation's 20,000 wealth management firms won't extract significant value from their business when their owners retire, because most do not have a sustainable profit model, a new report contends.

All but 7% of the nation's 20,000 wealth management firms won't extract significant value from their business when their owners retire, because most do not have a sustainable profit model, a new report contends.
Even those able to create so-called enterprise value — which is loosely defined a

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