Hilton Freund: Five ways to create a business culture that attracts top talent

Target the best of the next generation of financial advisers

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How can you and your business go about creating a working culture that attracts - and retains - the premium talent that is out there? Hilton Freund runs through five must-haves for forward-looking advisers

The workforce of tomorrow will be dominated by a new and different generation, the ‘Millennials' - those who were born between the early 1980s and 2000. Stereotypes about the Millennials are numerous - pick any combination of, for example, confident, tech-savvy, ambitious, craving feedback and wanting to go places - but, whatever the truth about the Millennial personality, these young people will undoubtedly have a major part to play in the future of work. So how can you and your business go about create a working culture that attracts - and retains - the premium talent that is out th...

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