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Recently, Mitchell Byrum ’17 represented the Texas A&M Financial Planning Program at the 2015 Peak Advisor Alliance Excell Conference. The\u00a0conference provides participants\u00a0with the opportunity to engage with other advisors, learn new ways to be successful and gain tools to further grow their practice.<\/p>\n
Attending as a Career Candidate, Byrum received first-hand experience on how to run a financial planning firm and participated in several networking opportunities, he said.<\/p>\n
One opportunity involved speaking at the Million Dollar Producer Session. This allowed candidates to share their story and network with more than\u00a0700 advisors in attendance. To make the experience\u00a0more personable, each candidate was paired with\u00a0an advisor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI especially enjoyed the one-on-one time with my coach and their clients,\u201d Byrum said. “They gave me advice about being a young advisor.”<\/p>\n
This once in a lifetime experience was made possible by\u00a0the Career Candidate Scholarship, Byrum said.\u00a0The scholarship, supported by Peak Advisor Alliance, aims to connect students with a career in financial planning.\u00a0This year,\u00a0five students \u2014 representing universities across the nation \u2014 were selected to attend.<\/p>\n
Join us in congratulating Mitchell\u00a0on this great accomplishment.<\/p>\n
If\u00a0you are interested in applying for next year’s conference, email financialplanning.tamu.edu for more information.<\/p>\n
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