Certified Financial

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  CFPB Calls for ‘Rigorous’ Standards for Senior Designations

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  April 18, 2013

  The CFPB told Congress, the SEC and state regulators that the alphabet soup of “senior designations”—more than 50—confuses older Americans and that a three-pronged approach is needed to protect the elderly from fraud.

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  A Chat With CFP Board CEO Kevin Keller: Fiduciary, SRO and His Priorities

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  August 21, 2012

  Providing the SEC with the resources it needs “is the best solution" to the advisor exam problem, says Kevin Keller, but finding a way to ensure advisors face more exam scrutiny—through an SRO or user fees paid to the SEC—will be a “long-term issue.”

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  Planning Betters Financial Health at All Income Levels: Study

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 23, 2012

  People with a financial plan are more likely to report themselves as “living comfortably”—even if they are in lower income brackets, according to a survey from the Consumer Federation of America and the CFP Board.

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  Behavioral Economics: Your Own Worst Enemy

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  December 28, 2011

  Emotional investing, performance chasing and any other term we might use to describe investors’ penchant for harming themselves isn’t a new—or particularly insightful—concept on its face.

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  Advisor SRO Would Cost Twice as Much as Funding SEC Exams

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  December 15, 2011

  The report, conducted by BCG and funded by advisor groups and TD Ameritrade, was released before a House panel vote on a spending bill that included a $136 million increase for SEC funding.

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  I’m OK, You’re Not: In CFP Survey, Americans Feel Better About Own Finances Than Economy

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  June 16, 2011

  Americans' trust in advisors fell during the recession, but most would happily sit down with an advisor to work out a financial plan, says a CFP Board survey.

• Planning for the Future

  By Ellen Uzelac  |  July 1, 2007

  When Kevin R. Keller was tapped as the new chief executive officer of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards in April, one of the...

• Hope It Wasn't Something I Said

  By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne, Bob Clark, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2006

  Columnists work in a rather bizarre environment. We periodically cast out our thoughts onto pages and the Internet and the airwaves in the hope that...

• At the Podium, Not on a Pedestal

  By Staff Writer  |  November 1, 2005

  While women may be having a hard time gaining traction within the wirehouses, in the independent advisor world they already play prominent roles in firms,...

• Step Up

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2004

  Advisors face a conundrum. They must help clients plan for a future that is, by definition, unknowable. Moreover, preparing a financial plan to deal with...