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Registered Rep. December 29, 2010 Anne Field	Succeeding At Succession A quarter of firm owners lack an exit plan, according to a 2009 survey by Rydex/SGI's AdvisorBenchmarking. And more than one-third don't have a timeline for when they're going to leave the business.
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