Virtual Ethics: CFP Ethics: A Practical Application of CFP Board’s Code and Standards
Members: Complimentary (Check your email for Discount Code or email admin@fpa-neo.org)
Nonmembers: $42.50
About the Session…
This course fulfills the requirement for CFP Board Ethics CE covering the following information:
- Recognize when a CFP® Professional is providing financial advice.
- Apply the Fiduciary Duty.
- Describe when financial advice requires financial planning and the additional obligations that apply.
- Identify duties when using or referring other service providers or technologies.
- Describe the process CFP Board follows to uphold the Code and Standards.
- Determine what information must be provided to the client and when to document the exchange of information.
About the speaker….
Dan Candura, CFP BOARD EMERITUS™ is the founder of Candura Group, LLC and provides ethics training across the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia through in-person courses and webinars. As President of PennyTree Advisers LLC, until September 2019, Dan provided financial planning for consumers and litigation support for attorneys. Dan taught financial planning, insurance planning and retirement planning in the Sawyer School of Business at Suffolk University in Boston and was CFP® Ambassador for the Boston area. He now lives on Cape Cod.
Dan appeared as a featured expert on the PBS documentary Retirement Revolution. He has been profiled in The Journal of Financial Planning, and quoted in numerous publications. He wrote a monthly column for Investment News concerning ethical issues for advisors. Dan served on the Board of Directors of The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. and is a past Chair of the Board of Professional Review. He is a member of the Financial Planning Association and a retired member of NAPFA.
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