An organization representing about 75,000 financial planning professionals “strongly urged” the U.S. Senate Banking Committee to include financial planner consumer protections that include increase regulation, oversight and competency and ethics standards for anyone calling himself a “financial planner.”

A Columbia, Md., man and Certified Financial Planner was publicly admonished for his involvement in a variable annuities case, according to the CFP Board, which administers the certification.

James R. Klima …  Read →

A Cockeysville, Md., man and Certified Financial Planner was recently publicly admonished for his actions in conjunction with the sale of Class B mutual fund shares, according to the CFP …  Read →