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GOAL

        KEEPERS








        What’s your retirement number? Who cares? America’s Top Wealth Advisors

        are dangling second homes, charitable foundations and lavish vacations
        as they borrow from behavioral science to rewrite their advice playbooks.

        BY HALAH TOURYALAI AND ASHLEA EBELING
                           hen a longtime client announced   husband, then both fiftysomething surgeons, were already
                           she wanted to buy a million-dollar   socking away enough to maintain their lifestyle in retire-
                           vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard   ment. And Van Dusen, founder of LVW Advisors in Pitts-
                           within the next ten years for cash,   ford, New York, expects clients to share their goals, even   FRANCO VOGT FOR FORBES
                           financial advisor Lori Van Dusen   those that might seem like a stretch.
        W didn’t flinch. The woman and her                   That’s because she manages her clients’ money (about


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