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Expatriate advisor finds a home and client base in France

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Robert Levitt has traded Florida for the French Riviera, where he sees a wide-open market in the 250,000 Americans living there who need financial advice.

Robert Levitt might not have moved to France 16 years ago to develop a niche of working with Americans living abroad, but now that he’s there it looks like a no-brainer strategy.

Levitt, 62, pulled up stakes from his home base in Boca Raton, Florida, in the midst of the financial crisis to crea

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