Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards

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  CFP Board Appoints Panel to Boost Number of Female Advisors

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 15, 2013

  The CFP Board announced Wednesday an initiative to boost the number of women advisors in the field, including CFPs, as the number of female CFPs hasn’t budged for a decade.

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  Strategies to Improve CE Credit: More Is Better

  By Michael E. Kitces  |  April 19, 2013

  The more CE required, the more demand there is for CE credit, and the more providers willing to try to craft quality CE credit.

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  Top 10 Ways to Stop Elder Financial Scams

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 28, 2013

  CFP Board consumer advocate Eleanor Blayney describes 10 common situations in which older Americans are vulnerable to financial abuse and offers advice to guard against it.

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  New Hire Roundup: Collins Named as TDAI’s Head of Advisor Transitions

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 20, 2013

  Also this week in new hires, John Mastal joined Convergent Wealth, and E. Thomas Johnson Jr. went to Retirement Clearinghouse.

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  CFP Board Hires Cranford as New Lobbyist

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 18, 2013

  The CFP Board has beefed up its lobbying power by hiring Todd Cranford, who advised former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

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  New Hire Roundup: CFP Board Announces Chair Appointments

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 30, 2013

  This week in new hires, John Byrne and Bryan Hissong returned to Prudential Retirement, and Jac McLean was named head of distribution at Hartford Mutual Funds.

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  NAPFA to Advisors: CFP Designation or Bust

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  December 4, 2012

  NAPFA said Tuesday that it would only accept the CFP designation for people who applied to be NAPFA-registered financial advisors.

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  CFP Board Names Aikin, 2 Others to Board of Directors

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 15, 2012

  The CFP Board announced Thursday that it had elected three new directors to the Board of Directors at its Fall 2012 meeting: Blaine F. Aikin, Arthur Laby and Thomas Nelson.

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  FPA Announces Award Winners

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 28, 2012

  Among the winners is David King, who will be honored posthumously for his visionary devotion to the development of the financial planning movement as an established profession.

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  Should Practice Management Really Be Eligible for CE? Part 1

  By Michael E. Kitces  |  September 6, 2012

  Who wants a doctor who skipped classes on the latest medical treatments to instead learn about marketing or a new billing software?