What Is a Certified Trust and Fiduciary🔜 Advisor (CTFA)?

The Certified Trust and Fiduciary Advisor (CTFA) is a professional designation offered by the American Bankers Association (ABA), which provides training and knowledge in taxes, investments, financial planning, trusts, and estates. Previously called the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor certification, the ABA replaced "Financial" in the title with the word "Fiduciary" in 2020.

The CTFA credential is appropriate for professionals who have a career in banking, brokering, 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:financial planning, taxation, or trust administration.

Understanding a Certified Trust and Fiduciary Advis💞or (CTFA)

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Providing specialty services in administration, investment management, tax, legal, finance, and 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:estate planning is also considered professional wealth management experience by the banking trade association, as is fiduciary regulatory oversight with a state or federal regulatory agency and fiduciary compliance or risk management activities. The ABA adds that these services can be delivered in "an integrated or specialty-focused manner."

Certified Trust and Fiduciary Advisor 𓆉(C🍃TFA) Requirements

Applicants must have three years of experience 🐲in wealth management and have completed an accredited training program in the last seven years, including one of ﷽the following:

• Hold foundation, intermediate and advanced ABA trust certificates. These can be earned online at an ABA trust school, at an ABA-led in-bank trust school, or a combination of both. If applicants complete all three certificates online, the ABA’s CTFA exam online prep course is also required.
• Completed Cannon Financial Institute Trust School’s Level I, Level II, and Level III courses.
• Completed Campbell University’s trust and investment management degree.

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• Five years of wealth management experience accumulated within the past seven years and a bachelor’s degree.
• Ten or more years of wealth management experience, at least five of which must have been obtained in the past seven years.

In addition to satisfying these requirements, applicants are required to sign the ABA professional certifications’ code of ethics statement.

Certified Trust and Fiduciary Adviso𝕴r (CTFA) Exam

Applicants must pay $750 to take the exam or $450 for retakes.

The exam has a maximum duration of four hours and consists of 200 multiple-choice questions. Areas of knowledge tested include fiduciary and trust activities, financial planning, taxation law and planning, investment management, and ethics. The exam also tests applicants' ability to apply their knowledge to practical examples. Applicants will be provided a calculator for the exam.

Certified Trust and Fid𒁏uciary Advisor (CTF꧙A) Renewal

To maintain the CTFA designation, holders must complete 45 CE credits every three years, adhere to the ABA professional certifications' code of ethics and pay an annual renewal fee of $275. Individuals who hold two or more ABA certifications receive a renewal discount.