Certified Financial Planner
Board of Standards
(Taken from their website - http://www.cfp.net/aboutus/mission.asp)
The mission of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) is to benefit the public by granting the CFP® certification and upholding it as the recognized standard of excellence for personal financial planning. The Board of Directors, in furthering CFP Board’s mission, acts on behalf of the public, CFP® certificants and other stakeholders.
CFP Board History
CFP Board was founded in July 1985 as the International Board of Standards and Practices for Certified Financial Planners, Inc, (IBCFP) by the College for Financial Planning (College) and the Institute of Certified Financial Planners (ICFP). The IBCFP became Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. (CFP Board) on February 1, 1994. As a professional regulatory organization acting in the public interest by fostering professional standards in personal financial planning, CFP Board establishes and enforces education, examination, experience and ethics requirements for CFP® certificants.
Once established as an independent certifying body, CFP Board continued working to establish the CFP® marks as professional certifications beyond an educational credential. The growth of the financial planning profession during the early 1980s had created a demand for more financial planning training and education and moved the need for the maintenance and surveillance of professional standards and self-discipline beyond the College's more narrowly focused responsibilities as an educational institution.
The Four Es
By June 1986, CFP Board had acquired ownership of the CFP® and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ marks from the College as well as all responsibility for the testing and certification of CFP® certificants. A Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice and Disciplinary Rules and Procedures were adopted that same year, and the other elements of the certification process quickly followed: the registration of financial planning educational programs of institutions other than the College in 1987, continuing education requirements in 1988, and the delineation of experience requirements and certifying procedures by 1989.
In 1991, CFP Board introduced a single comprehensive examination to test the integration and application of the knowledge gained from the developed personal financial planning curriculum. Modeled on the licensing examinations given to attorneys or Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), the CFP® Certification Examination was further evidence of CFP Board's progress in ensuring the qualifications of CFP® certificants in the practice of financial planning.
Having strengthened the examination, education and experience requirements, in 1992 CFP Board turned its attention to the fourth "E", ethics, and made extensive revisions to its Code of Ethics. On January 1, 1993, a new Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility was introduced to replace the IBCFP's previous Code.
Early in 1994, in addition to changing to its new name, CFP Board introduced a new CFP® mark designed to help consumers distinguish CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certificants from other financial planners. The new mark, composed of a stylized flame and the initials "CFP," is available for use only by currently authorized CFP® certificants.
Practice Standards
In September 1994, the Board of Governors approved a plan for the development and promulgation of Financial Planning Practice Standards for personal financial planning and created a subsidiary board, the Board of Practice Standards. During 1995, the Board of Practice Standards began this process with the issuance of its first exposure draft of a proposed Practice Standard.
After three years of work, including the active solicitation and consideration of comments from CFP® certificants, the Board of Governors approved the first three Practice Standards in 1998. These standards, in the 100 and 300 series, became effective for all CFP® certificants who engage in the practice of financial planning on January 1, 1999. The 300 series went into effect in 2000, the 400 series in 2001, and the 500 and 600 series went into effect January 1, 2002.
Other Initiatives
CFP Board acquired The Registry of Financial Planning Practitioners certification mark from the International Association for Financial Planning (IAFP) in 1995. In so doing, CFP Board removed a confusing designation from the marketplace, making room for greater public recognition of the CFP® marks to identify planners who are qualified to offer ethical, competent financial advice. In 1997, the IAFP publicly recommended that practitioners who hold themselves out as financial planners attain the CFP® certification. In May 2000, the Board of Governors decided to let the trademark registration of The Registry of Financial Planning Practitioners mark lapse.
In 1996, a voluntary mediation program to resolve financial planning disputes that may or may not involve ethics violations was established by CFP Board in conjunction with the IAFP, ICFP and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA). The program is administered by the independent American Arbitration Association and is open to all financial planning clients and financial planning practitioners, whether or not the planner is a CFP® certificant.
In 1998, CFP Board opened an office in the Washington, D.C. area to educate government regulators and public interest groups about CFP Board and its role as a professional regulatory organization. To gain insight into the evolving role of financial planning and CFP® certificants within the financial services profession, in 1998 CFP Board established the Financial Services Advisory Council. This initiative was followed in 1999 with the founding of the Consumer Advisory Council to solicit feedback from consumer representatives about the financial planning profession.
International Growth
An international assembly of financial planning bodies, the International CFP Council was founded in 1990 to promote the professionalism of individuals and organizations offering financial planning services and to ensure that such services are offered in an ethical and competent manner throughout the world.
Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), was established in 2004 to further foster the internationalization of the CFP® marks. A nonprofit, international standards-setting body, FPSB is a nonprofit association that manages, develops and operates certification, education and related programs for financial planning organizations so that they may benefit and protect the global community by establishing, upholding and promoting worldwide professional standards in personal financial planning. FPSB’s commitment to excellence is represented by the CFP® and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP (with flame logo) marks. FPSB works in conjunction with its members to develop and promote rigorous international competency, ethics and professional practice standards for CFP® professionals in member countries/regions to ensure that consumers looking for qualified personal financial planners understand and value CFP® certification.
As of February 2007, FPSB has members and associate members from 20 countries. These members have authorized more than 52,000 individuals to use the CFP® marks in their respective countries and regions. More information on FPSB is available at www.fpsb.org.
Founded in 1985 as a nonprofit professional regulatory organization, the mission of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) is to benefit the public by granting the CFP® certification and upholding it as the recognized standard of excellence for personal financial planning.
NEWS
JULY 2009 CFP® EXAM UPDATE: (Updated June 15)
The Tax Tables that will be provided with test booklets for the July 2009 CFP® Certification Examination have been updated and are available for review online at www.CFP.net/become/taxtables.asp. The CFP® Exam tests current tax laws that have been in effect six months prior to the exam date; therefore, the Hope and Lifetime Learning Credits listed in the Tax Tables continue to reference 2008, as the change in the applicable law was not enacted until February 2009.
Request for Comment:
Proposed Technical Corrections to CFP Board's
Standards of Professional Conduct
On March 30, 2009, the Board of Directors ("Board") of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. ("CFP Board") requested comments on proposed technical corrections to its Standards of Professional Conduct ("Standards"). The proposed technical corrections provided below are intended to clarify ambiguities, eliminate redundancies and add terminology to achieve consistency between the Standards and other CFP Board publications.
Comments received during the 30-day comment period, which ended April 29, 2009, have been posted to CFP Board’s Web site and will be reviewed and considered by CFP Board’s Board of Directors.
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