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

Nerd's Eye View

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. Read More.

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How Financial Planners Can Help Uplift Communities

Wealth Management

Providing ethical, competent financial planning is an immediate and direct step to help your community improve its financial resilience.

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Personal finance links: the home buying decision

Abnormal Returns

whitecoatinvestor.com) Financial planning Do you need a financial plan or financial planner? thomaskopelman.com) Is an AI going to be your future financial adviser? timdenning.substack.com) Why you should have a Life Ethic not a Work Ethic. radreads.co)

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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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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (April 8-9)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that the T3/Inside Information Software Survey is available, providing insights into which technology tools advisors use and their level of satisfaction with them, which highlighted the continued rise of specialized financial planning (..)

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (October 2022)

Nerd's Eye View

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Ethic Investing raises a $50M Series C round as values-based “personalized indexing” through direct indexing tools continues to gain momentum.