Results from the July 2010 CFP® certification examination are pouring in. Many recipients are broadcasting their results on twitter.
Click here to see real-time updates from those who passed with this Twitter search: “passed cfp”
Congratulations to all those who passed this rigorous exam. If you did not pass, I highly recommend you evaluate the Ken Zahn Live Review course.
I’m flying to Colorado tomorrow morning to connect with the FPA® NexGen community in Estes Park. This will be my third NexGen conference out of the last five (I seem to attend in every even-numbered year).
I look forward to reconnecting with many of my peers and making new friendships with other young advocates of the financial planning profession.
I don’t expect to have widespread Wifi coverage, so there won’t be much live-tweeting from the conference. Still I hope to return and present some of the important discussion topics and takeaways from the meeting of young and motivated advisers in the profession.
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Interesting developments have occurred over at Financial Advisor magazine’s online extras this week. First, on April 6, Dr. Somnath Basu wrote an article titled Restoring Trust in the CFP Mark. I encourage you to read it.
While Dr. Basu is correct that the industry needs to do better in its service to clients, he lumps CFP® practitioners together with all financial service professionals, whether they be regulated or not.
So in response, CFP Board CEO Kevin Keller published a response to Dr. Basu titled In Defense of the CFP Mark. Keller clarifies several of Dr. Basu’s misconceptions in his original article and stresses how all advisers must operate with “full accountability and transparency” to clients.
Take a few mintues to read these articles and post comments on FA Magazine’s website.
Update: Now read this post by Dr. David Edward Marcinko at the Medical Executive Post. Dr. Marcinko finishes his comments with this:
And so, why do I shake my fist at Somnath Basu? It’s admittedly with congratulations, and a bit of schadenfreude, because he wrote an article more eloquently than I ever could, and will likely receive much more publicity [good or slings-arrows] for doing so. You know, it’s very true that one is never a prophet in his own tribe. Oh well, Mazel Tov anyway for stating the obvious, Somnath. The financial services industry – and more specifically – the CFP® emperor have no clothes! Duh!
