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Personal Financial Planning Advisory Board

Kurt Carrasquilla, Co-Chair
Vice President—
Wealth Management
MorganStanleySmithBarney

Tim Kochis, Co-Chair
CEO and Co-Founder
Aspiriant

Saundra Davis, M.S.F.P.
Owner
Sage Financial Solutions

C. Gordon Dunne
Managing Director
The Financial Services Network

Kevin Gahagan, CIMA, CFP
Principal
Mosaic Financial Partners, Inc.

Peter-Eric Philipp, CFA
Registered Principal
Cambridge Investment Research

Shane Westhoelter, CLU, RFC, QFP, LUTCF, LTCP
Investment Adviser Representative
Regional Vice President
Woodbury Financial Services

Personal Financial Planning


(EDP 302836)

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With the demographic trend toward an aging population, the field of personal financial planning is expected to grow more rapidly than ever as more and more people begin to plan for their retirement. UC Berkeley Extension's Professional Sequence in Personal Financial Planning provides an academic path to the profession and courses that pave the way to take the CFP® Certification Examination.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites apply for all personal financial planning courses. Students should possess a minimum of a bachelor's degree and at least two years of professional experience in a financial services field. If you do not meet these prerequisites but possess comparable skills, you may request advance approval to enroll by contacting the program office in writing at Personal Financial Planning, UC Berkeley Extension-BTE, 1995 University Ave., Suite 110, Berkeley, CA 94704-7000; by phone at (510) 642-4231; or by fax at (510) 642-6027. Please provide a brief description of relevant experience, including duration and extent, along with your contact information.

For all other registration matters, please call (510) 642-4111.

We recommend that you take Basic Financial Mathematics and Financial Spreadsheets before enrolling in Survey of Personal Financial Planning, if you don't have experience using financial calculators.

Requirements

A total of 16 semester units must be completed to earn the certificate: seven required courses (14 semester units) and one elective course (2 semester units). All coursework must be completed within four years with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 and no grade lower than C with the exception of the Survey of Personal Financial Planning and Personal Financial Planning Practicum courses, which must be completed with grades of B or higher. Please call (510) 642-4231 to verify your completion.

Required courses

(Course fees in the Personal Financial Planning professional sequence are located within individual course descriptions of the web catalog, and do not include textbooks and/or course materials.)

Elective courses (choose one)

Registration procedure

Students should apply to be admitted to the program after completing the survey course with a grade of B (3.0) or better.

We recommend that you register for the professional sequence before you begin your third course in the program. To register, please (1) complete and submit the Program Registration Form or (2) print out and complete the form at www.unex.berkeley.edu/cert/certproginfo.html. Mail or fax it as it indicates, and include the nonrefundable registration fee. Program registration cannot be taken by phone.

Requirements may be updated based on new developments in the field of study; we recommend completing the program in a timely fashion. Please call (510) 642-4231 for details concerning the application process.

Students not interested in completing our Personal Financial Planning program but who would like to enroll in one or more of our courses can do so by contacting our registration office by phone, fax, or e-mail; however, should you later decide to enroll in the program, you must contact the department to receive official acceptance into the program and to request a transfer of courses taken prior to enrolling in the program to apply toward the professional sequence.

Substitution Requests

Students are not able to substitute previous coursework into this program or use courses from other institutions in completion of this program.

Refunds, Withdrawals and Cancellations

For all refund, withdrawal or cancellation issues, please refer to www.unex.berkeley.edu/info/enrollment.html#refunds. Note: Work obligations do not qualify as an exception in terms of the refund policy.

Completing the program

Upon completion of the final course, students must contact the department to provide notification of their completion. Once grades and course completion have been verified, the certificate request process will be initiated and the CFP Board will be notified of the student's eligibility to take the national exam.

CFP Board registered

The Professional Sequence in Personal Financial Planning is registered with the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. This registration allows those who have successfully completed the UC Berkeley Extension program and who wish to obtain the CFP® certification to take the national CFP Certification Examination. Coursework is designed to cover 101 topics tested on the certification examination.

"CFP®" and "Certified Financial PlannerTM"are federally registered marks of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards.

UC Berkeley Extension does not certify individuals to use the CFP® and Certified Financial PlannerTM marks. CFP certification is granted only by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards to those persons who, in addition to completing an educational requirement such as this CFP Board-Registered Program, have met its ethics, experience, and examination requirements.

For information regarding CFP® certification, please write or call CFP Board, 1670 Broadway, Suite 600, Denver, CO 80202; phone (303) 830-7500; fax (303) 860-7388; Web site www.cfp.net; e-mail mail@cfp-board.org.



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