The Financial Planning Standards Board, the global standards-setting body for the Certified Financial Planner designation, is to hold its first World Financial Planning Day on Wednesday 4 October.

The Julie Lord column

So the debate has been raging about whether Chartered Financial Planner or Certified Financial Planner is more useful.

A worldwide Financial Planning body is seeking two new board directors as it bids to establish it as a global profession.

More than 11,000 HSBC financial advisers, planners and wealth managers are to be trained towards becoming Certified Financial Planners.