Sat, April 11, 2009
Finally, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification
Last week, the CFP Board of Standards informed me that I’m now able to use the certification marks that they maintain.
The news came in an e-mail, which felt pretty anticlimactic after several years of doing coursework, gaining work experience, and passing a two-day, ten-hour exam covering something like a hundred 89 topic areas. Still, it’s done, and I’m very thankful.
Going forward, I’ll need to keep up with the board’s ongoing certification requirements, including continuing education and adherence to the board’s “Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility;” these are things I’d have done anyway, so they are hardly onerous. I’m very pleased that the CFP Board has been raising the disclosure requirements for its certificants who give financial advice; I think it bodes well for the future of my profession.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.