Certifications and licensing

CFP Board teams up with Foundation for Financial Planning to further their goal of increasing the number of planners who offer advice for free.

CFP Board is seeking to preserve "adversarial principles" in proceedings before its disciplinary and ethics commission.

The proposal mirrors FINRA's policy requiring annual continuing education.

State regulators' enforcement actions for 2021 reveal which scams pose the greatest risks to investors.

We asked what experienced planners wished they knew when they started out. Here's what they had to say.

In a rebuttal to the Board’s recently installed director of enforcement, John H. Robinson says Tom Sporkin is delivering more organizational spin at the expense of transparency and consumer interests.

Advisors with disciplinary histories who keep other registrations after leaving FINRA BrokerCheck are much more likely to commit infractions, researchers say.

Anyone can call themselves a wealth advisor these days. Here are credentials that count.

The organization’s new Thrive Center for Diversity will seek to address the lack of representation of race, ethnicity, age and sexual preference, in addition to gender disparities, in wealth management.

Even as the numbers improve, Black and Hispanic advisors are still vastly underrepresented within the industry.