Here are the biggest challenges female advisors see in growing their business

Actually, it has less to do with gender than you might think.

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If you ask female financial advisors what they see as the biggest challenges they face in growing their business in 2020, they’ll tell you that new or coming regulations could be throwing up roadblocks to that growth.

In fact, according to a survey from Edward Jones, 31 percent take that view—but of course other challenges lie ahead:

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Marlene Satter

Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.

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