CFP Board

Technology can speed up the planning process, but advisors still need to smartly allocate human resources.

The second annual event highlighted the business reasons firms should be prioritizing expansion of their diversity and inclusion initiatives.

At best, the variety increases awareness of what the career can offer. At worst, it lends ammunition to critics who insist the profession isn’t a profession at all.

With tens of thousands of certificants affiliated with giant BDs, the documents required by the new standards are making their conflicts of interest plain as day.

Who guards the guardians? Regulators, yes, but as CFPs we must also police ourselves

CFPs aren’t excused from acting as fiduciaries — even if they work at a firm that requires them to recommend proprietary funds.

A task force will issue recommendations to shore up the disciplinary process ahead of the board's November meeting. Here’s what advisors need to know.

After an investigation into the self-disclosure of regulatory incidents, the board is looking to strengthen the review process and clear up public confusion.

Rather than learn from the mistakes exposed regarding false listings of advisors’ “fee-only” status, the board doubled down on looking the other way.

The certifying body says it will no longer rely on advisors’ reports and it is convening a new task force to modernize enforcement.