The FPSB, the global body for setting Certified Financial Planner standards, has elected Cary List CFP, President and CEO of Canada’s Financial Planning professional body, to serve as FPSB Council chairperson in 2018.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment is urging members to get behind the first ever World Financial Planning Day to be held on Wednesday 4 October.

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.

Global Financial Planning Standards Board CEO Noel Maye has revealed the organisation is planning a global consumer campaign to promote the benefits of Financial Planning as a way to help spur ambitious plans to increase the number of CFP professionals worldwide from 161,000 now to 250,000 by 2025.