Certified financial planners are subject to continuing education requirements in order to maintain their certification. Specifically, they're required to complete 30 hours of continuing education each ...

CFP certificants would be required to obtain 10 additional hours of continuing education every two years under proposals being considered by the CFP Board of Standards. At the same time, they will be ...

Obtaining professional certifications or designations can enhance your credibility and help you attract new clients. Roughly one-third of advisors have a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) credential, ...

More than 88,000 CFPs and thousands of financial advisors aiming to get the mark in the future have a new topic for study and continuing education: the psychology of financial planning. Processing ...

CFP Board is rolling out a suite of competency changes that will raise continuing education requirements, reshape qualifying experience and clarify what it means to be ready for independent practice ...

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. has begun randomly auditing up to 50 continuing-education courses each month following criticism from advisers about substandard courses they've ...

SAN ANTONIO - Big changes to the continuing education requirements for planners are expected next month following a meeting of the leadership of the CFP Board. In addition to expanding the 30 credits ...

The board of directors said Tuesday that they have decided against making any changes in the CE requirements needed for CFP certification and they are going to further review the previously proposed ...

High stability, high satisfaction, and high salary. Those are just a few phrases you could use to describe the career of a Certified Financial Planner™—and it isn’t anecdotal. Those phrases are based ...

As with most other professions that require certifications, such as doctors, lawyers and CPAs, the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) board requires its certificants to meet certain ongoing criteria.