The Financial Planning Standards Board, owner of the international CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER certification programme outside the United States, is seeking papers from the global academic community for the first annual Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines.

The global Financial Planning Standards Board has announced seven new faces will join its Professional Standards Committee.

The number of Certified Financial Planner professionals worldwide reached a new high of 161,826 by the end of 2015, it has been revealed.

At its semiannual meeting in Tokyo in October, the Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB), the global body responsible for international Certified Financial Planner certification outside the US, named three individuals to serve four-year terms on its board of directors, starting on 1 April 2016.