Free Financial Advice

by Nancy Mills

Boomers TV was contacted recently by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards who asked us to pass along an invitation to attend a free clinic next month in California. If you've got financial questions...and who doesn't?...and you're in or near Los Angeles, you can stop by for some free advice from the pros.

Here's the info from Eddie Demirovic of the CFP Board:

Attend the Financial Planning Clinic on Friday, August 4, 2006, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where more than 100 volunteer CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals from around the country will be available to answer your financial questions for no cost. Meeting attendees will have the chance to hold informal conversations with volunteer CFP® certificants at tables designated for certain financial subjects, including retirement.

At the free Financial Planning Clinic, volunteers will be seated at tables designated for certain financial topics. Choose a topic you're interested in and head over to the appropriate table. The volunteer CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals will speak to only one individual or one individual family at a time. Volunteers will not be permitted to hand out business cards or attempt to sell any services outside the Financial Planning Clinic, but the names and contact information for all volunteers will be included in a printed publication handed out by CFP Board to all those attending. There will be no sale of investment products or services at the clinic.

The Financial Planning Clinic is part of the General Session of CFP Board's Annual Meeting, which includes breakout sessions from notable speakers who will provide information to help you better manage your money and will increase your knowledge of financial planning. Join CFP Board August 4 and mingle with CFP® certificants, financial planning educators, financial service firm representatives and others whose lives benefit from financial planning – all within a short ride to the beach!

WHAT IS CFP BOARD?
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) is a non-profit professional regulatory organization that fosters professional standards in financial planning so that the public values, has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning.

CFP Board awards CFP® certification to individuals who pass the CFP® Certification Examination and meet other high standards of competence and ethics in financial planning.

Register online at www.CFP.net/register.

Registration is requested before July 19, 2006.