Birmingham Financial Planners Try To Woo Millennials

| July 19, 2015 

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There are more than 80 million of them, and one day they could be very rich. They’re the Millennials, people born between 1980 and 1999. And while they’re still early in their careers, the Birmingham Business Journal’s Cindy Fisher Crawford says financial planners are trying to secure their business early. In the process, they’re learning some surprising things about millennials’ money habits.

 

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