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How To Determine The ‘Best’ CFP Education Program (For You): 2025 Update

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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).

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50th Anniversary Of The CFP Marks: The Journey, Current State Of CFP Board, And Growing The Financial Planning Profession

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So, in the late 1960s, a movement began to organize and promote best practices that would establish financial planning as a true profession. As a result, in 1973, a group of 35 planners became the inaugural recipients of the CFP marks.

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Title Protection For (CFP) Financial Planners And The FPA’s Two About-Faces

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But a lawsuit to block the rule ultimately led to it (and the associated Title Protection for "financial planner") being vacated… by the FPA. Raising the question of whether the FPA is also considering an about-face on its CFP-centricity, too.

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Rebuilding The Kitces Members Section And The State Of The (Nerd’s Eye View) Blog

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We've also rolled out a new private community specifically for Directors of Financial Planning (DFPs), who are increasingly becoming the lynchpins that drive planning excellence in advisory firms… which is so in alignment with our own Kitces mission that we wanted to start hosting a community for DFPs to further foster their success!

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CFP Misconduct Research (And The Challenge Of Counting How Many Financial Advisors There Really Are)

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Financial advisors are generally required to abide by ethical standards, such as the duty to act in a client’s best interests when giving financial advice. in Journal of Financial Regulation, however, concludes the opposite. A forthcoming study by Jeff Camarda et al. Previous research by Derek Tharp et al.

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CFP Misconduct Research And The Challenge Of Counting How Many Financial Advisors There Really Are

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Financial advisors are generally required to abide by ethical standards, such as the duty to act in a client’s best interests when giving financial advice. in Journal of Financial Regulation, however, concludes the opposite. A forthcoming study by Jeff Camarda et al. Previous research by Derek Tharp et al.

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IAR CE: Continuing Education Requirements For Investment Adviser Representatives And How Different States Adopt NASAA’s Model Rule

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CFP certificants and CFA charterholders) have CE requirements to retain their credentials, IARs without such credentials haven’t traditionally had any ongoing CE requirements. While holders of certain credentials (e.g.,