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Why widows ditch their advisers

widows and advisers

Advisers to surviving spouses must acknowledge the 'elephant in the room'

Conventional wisdom holds that most women fire their financial adviser within three years of becoming a widow.

Amy Florian, chief executive of bereavement counselor Corgenius Inc., knows why.

“The adviser didn't ask me about what I was going through,” she said of the first adviser she hired to

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