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RRSP & FINANCIAL PLANNING
EXPERTS AVAILABLE
CFP® Professionals available for insight, comment

Toronto, November 16, 2004 - Planning your stories for RRSP season? Looking for experts who can provide insight, comments and quotes? Financial Planners Standards Council can connect you with CFP® (Certified Financial Planner®) professionals who are experts in all facets of financial planning.

Trained and licensed to provide financial planning advice, CFP professionals can answer questions on topics related to retirement, investment, insurance, tax and estate planning, education savings, budgeting and more. Many offer additional areas of specialization including financial planning for life transition, divorce settlements, gay unions, charitable giving, elder care, alternative investing - and other topics.

More than 16,000 individuals in Canada have earned the CFP® designation. This expert community of financial planning professionals spans the country and all the financial services sectors.

About the CFP designation:
Those who hold CFP certification, the only internationally recognized financial planning certification, meet pre-and-post standards in education, exam, experience and ethics. There are currently more than 83,000 CFP professionals in 18 countries.

The growth of the CFP certification in Canada and internationally tells us that the public increasingly needs a way to identify professionals who have met competency and ethics standards and can take a comprehensive approach to financial planning. The CFP mark identifies these professionals.

Financial Planners Standards Council (FPSC) is a not-for-profit organization established in 1995 to foster professionalism in the provision of financial planning to Canadians. FPSC sets and enforces the highest standards in financial planning education, examination, experience and ethics for individuals who hold the CFP designation in Canada.

Please visit our media kit online to learn more about the CFP designation and financial planning at: www.cfp-ca.org/media/media_mediakit.asp or visit the FPSC website for further information: www.cfp-ca.org.

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MEDIA CONTACTS: Eileen Chadnick/Chadnick Communications for FPSC at 416.631.7437 or e-mail eileen@chadnick.com or Reed Hilton/FPSC at 416.593.8587 ext. 235 or e-mail rhilton@cfp-ca.org.