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Go to any financial advisor conference and you're bound to see plenty of wrinkles and gray hair. According to a 2019 J.D. Power study, the average age of financial advisors are 55 years old; 20% of financial advisors are 65 and older. Only about 10% of advisors are under 35, says Cerulli Associates, and efforts to recruit younger advisors haven't produced their intended results. 

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