Female Financial Advisers Sought as Boomers Need Planning
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Jean Keener spent years preparing to switch careers from advertising to financial planning. She took classes, passed exams and worked with a national network of advisers before opening her own firm -- on the day Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. collapsed in 2008.
“I was just like ‘Oh wow, this is going to make this probably harder, definitely more interesting,’” said Keener, 41, of Keller, Texas.