If you’re considering a career as a Certified Financial Planner® (CFP®), you’re in luck. Becoming a CFP® can lead to a stable and rewarding career with serious income potential. I’ll dig into CFP® ...

CFP Board today announced new data from a compensation study that reveals that CFP® professionals have high levels of career satisfaction and enjoy higher earnings than financial planners without CFP® ...

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Certified Financial Planners earn 12% more than other financial planners, according to the CFP Board, which conducted its first compensation survey of the profession. Financial planners can earn a ...

The certified financial planner (CFP) certification is one of the most highly sought-after designations for financial professionals and can add a lot of value to their careers. The CFP certification ...

Financial planners review their clients' finances and draft plans to help them reach their financial goals, such as having enough to retire on and/or putting some kids through college. This may ...

Many people looking for financial advice these days are running into a big hurdle: deciphering the letters that appear after financial planners’ names. What’s the difference, say, between the ...

High stability, high satisfaction, and high salary. Those are just a few phrases you could use to describe the career of a Certified Financial Planner™—and it isn’t anecdotal. Those phrases are based ...