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To earn the CFP marks, candidates must fulfill four key requirements: Education (holding a bachelor's degree and completing the required coursework through a CFP Board registered program), Exam (passing the 170-question CFP exam), Experience (gaining hands-on experience providing financial advice to the public), and Ethics (acting as a fiduciary).
The CFP Board has ramped up its exam prep offering to those pursuing the designation with AI that adjusts to a test takers knowledge level and areas of need.
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She’ll succeed current CFP Board Chair Matthew Boersen and Chair-Elect Liz Miller. Terri Kallsen joined Joe Duran’s new venture after previous stints at Wealth Enhancement Group and Schwab.
As a result, in 1973, a group of 35 planners became the inaugural recipients of the CFP marks. The rising popularity of CFP certification was thanks in large part to CFP Board's setting of rigorous educational and examination requirements that established a high bar of competency for those who wished to use the CFP marks.
In a newly released white paper, the organization recommended that the Board allow certificants at SEC- and FINRA-registered firms to be considered compliant with CFP rules.
The total number of CFP professionals topped 95,000 for the first time. While the percentage of women and racially diverse certificants grew from the previous year, the pool continued to mirror the industry’s diversity as a whole.
Matthew Boersen, the head of the Michigan RIA Straight Path Wealth Management, will become the CFP Board’s youngest chair when he takes over at the start of 2024.
Elizabeth Miller, the founder and president of Summit Place Financial Advisors is the 2024 CFP Board Chair-elect, set to take leadership for a year in 2025.
In the context of financial advisors, surveys have shown that CFP certification serves as an important branding signal for consumers seeking the services of a qualified advisor. For instance, a 2015 study found that consumers had higher brand awareness of the CFP marks, even more than the well-known ChFC, CFA, CLU, and PFS designations.
To meet this challenge, CFP Board’s Center For Financial Planning has engaged in fundraising for several years to fuel campaigns that have focused on building the advisor workforce of the future.
At the same time, questions abound as to how the FPA realistically plans to pursue Title Protection, and its noticeable abstention from mentioning the CFP marks anywhere in its discussion of its new advocacy agency, despite the fact that the FPA is the membership association for CFP professionals.
Together, these proposed changes (which are currently open for public comment) suggest CFP Board is seeking to ensure that those with the marks not only have sufficient education and experience upon receiving them, but also maintain and sharpen their skills over the course of their careers.
Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that SIFMA, which represents broker-dealers, investment banks, and asset managers, released a white paper that argues that CFP Board "increasingly functions as a de facto private regulator for CFP certificants" and proposes that CFP (..)
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Keller will step down on April 30, 2026, with the Board planning a search for his successor in the coming year. In a LinkedIn post, Keller wrote that leading well means leaving well.
The largest financial planning designation group announced several suspensions of advisors, including a Delaware-based planner who faces five counts of dealing child pornography, as well as a Maryland planner who was arrested and charged with manslaughter in an alleged drunk driving incident.
Healy, who was laid off from TD Ameritrade during its integration with Schwab, has volunteered with the Center for Financial Planning for several years. Now she'll lead it.
The new advertisement begins running today, and comes several months after the Board announced a change to grant the organization more flexibility in its marketing.
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In an interview with WealthManagement.com, Dan Moisand stressed the need for updated guidelines and also said the Board hopes to provide more detail on the reasoning behind punishments.
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While the share of advisors with the CFP marks has risen steadily over time, today, about 2/3 of financial advisors are not CFP professionals. The typical service advisor without CFP certification earns $48.83 for service advisors with the CFP marks – a difference of $37.47, or a whopping 77% boost in income per hour!
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Advisors who attain the CFP marks are held to even higher standards, though, with all CFP certificants required to adopt CFP Board’s own more-stringent Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct. A forthcoming study by Jeff Camarda et al. in Journal of Financial Regulation, however, concludes the opposite.
Advisors who attain the CFP marks are held to even higher standards, though, with all CFP certificants required to adopt CFP Board’s own more-stringent Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct. A forthcoming study by Jeff Camarda et al. in Journal of Financial Regulation, however, concludes the opposite.
Also in industry news this week: While the FPA is going full steam ahead on its federal and state lobbying efforts to regulate the title “financial planner”, CFP Board is more focused on increasing recognition of the CFP marks.
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