Worldwide Certified Financial Planner numbers (CFP) have topped 150,000 after rising by 5,500 in the last year, the owner of the certification programme has said.
Figures released by US-based the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) show the certified planning community has grown 3.76% over the last year, to a total of 153,376 CFP professionals. FPSB's member organisations in the US and China were the fastest growing, increasing the number of CFP professionals in their territories by 1,886 and 1,782 respectively. They were followed by Japan, which saw its CFPs increase by 628. The UK is home to 1,000 of Europe's 4,903 practising CFPs, with Investment for Life paraplanner Joanna Hague having been celebrated the Institute of Financial Planni...
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