How Do Financial Advisors Compete In A World In Which Megatrends Can Make Your Head Explode?

How will your clients react if the current pace of change intensifies a hundredfold? Multiple megatrends converging is unleashing a torrent of change like nothing ever before experienced by civilization. Dennis Stearns, CFP, a financial advisor and thought leader on scenario planning, will discuss the impact of megatrend convergence on financial advisors, your clients, and the economy.

You will learn about:

     · Megatrends likely to be most disruptive to your practice

     · Trends that may create opportunities for advisors

     · 10 trillion-dollar growth areas that may rescue you from a muddle-through economy

     · Behavioral finance techniques to cope with anxiety about change

Dennis Stearns is President of Stearns Financial, a fee-only wealth management firm with offices in Chapel Hill and Greensboro, North Carolina. Dennis has been called “One of the leading scenario experts and futurists in the financial planning industry” by the Financial Planning Association. He chairs strategic planning for Gateway Research Park, home of a new $60 million nanotechnology center and is on the advisory board of the NC Technology Association. He is a former chess expert and played on one of the winningest Pan-American chess teams in U.S. history. He coaches an inner city chess club and occasionally plays up to 35 people at the same time for children’s charities.