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Leadership in Practice
This year’s PLANADVISER Industry Leader Awards recognize outstanding plan advisers, and others, who are making positive changes in this noisy market.
Compliance
Products
Practice Management
Financial Planning Standards Board Updates Global Standards
Updates focus on growing collaboration between planners and clients.
CFP Board Publishes New Book on Psychology of Financial Planning
The book seeks to help advisory professionals understand the psychology of financial planning, and its publication coincides with the first time the topic of psychology is factored into the CFP exam.
Record Diversity Additions and Scholarship Awards for CFP Board
The increase in gender and racial diversity among CFP professionals supports the board’s goal of increasing public access to competent and ethical financial planning.
Compliance News
Legislative and Judicial Actions
The DOL denies general support for private equity; the Supreme Court sends ‘Northwestern’ back to the appeals court; the PBGC funds a second failing pension; and more.
Trends
Take Action for Change
The events of the past few years have helped supercharge efforts to address the longstanding and concerning lack of diversity and inclusion in the financial services industry.
The CFP Board to Include the Psychology of Financial Planning in Its Certification Exam
The aim of expanding the training to include more people skills is to help advisers align more closely with their clients’ goals.