The AAFM ® American Academy of Financial Management ® is an worldwide Board of Standards and financial professional organization with members in 150+ countries offering our exclusive certified designations, charters, and masters certification to candidates who meet the high standards. As for recognized training, AAFM Board of Standards approves and recognizes top 560+ accredited business schools, law schools and programs around the world. If you desire to be certification by our worldwide academic & professional organization and improve your education, resume, or credentials, then, you are taking the best step to a better career and achieving graduate financial designations. You can gain board certification and a charter as a financial professional, wealth manager, market analyst, financial and investment planner, asset manager, trust and estate planning analyst, financial manager, or risk manager.© AAFM offers several industry recognized graduate designations to qualified professionals. To see a list of our certifications, click here. To view our requirements, click here.

AAFM ® Board Certification and Designations: are certification credential marks for Wealth Managers, Financial Analysts, Investment Bankers, Risk Managers, Accountants etc. and Degree holding Financial Planners conferred by the American Academy Board of Standards. To receive authorization or accreditation to use AAFM Board Certification and Designations, the candidate must meet education, degree, examination, experience, continuing education, and ethics requirements, and pay good standing or certification fees.

The AAFM® Board of Standards or Related Accreditation Standards or Education has been recognized listed, disclosed, or in alliances with the following institutions, governmental organizations or agencies.

• US Dept of Labor Registry, Websites, and brochures
• DOE - The US Department of Educational Ref. Registry
• AACSB International Member See: Press Release
• NBEA National Business Education Association
• AABFS Arab Academy of Banking and Financial Sciences
• ACBSP Accreditation Prof. Member Articulation Alliance
• UN - United Nations Civil Society Registry
• ISBE International Society Business Education
• CIF Conferencia Internacional de Finanzas
• RSOF Royal Society of Fellows Board of Standards
• ANSI American National Standards Institute - Prof. Member
• NOCA National Organization for Competency Assurance - Certifying Organ. Member.
• China Banking Association and SETC Government Agency
• Bahamas West Indies Government University System
• UAE Financial Markets and Stock Markets & Dubai - UAE Quality Group
• The European EU - Quality Framework Institute via Training Alliances
• The Online LLM Graduate Law School Program
• IBA nternational Business Management Academy
• International Institute of Prof. Analysts
• IIFM Indian Finance Institute
• CFA/Institute - Co-Existence Trademark Agreement and Exhibit 18 CFA/Vision 2012
• CFP Board - Co-Existence Trademark Agreement and Approved for CFP/Continuing Education
• American Investments Summits
• TJSL Law School - Master of Laws Program
• TWEN - Westlaw - Course Distribution and Support
• Thomson Reuters - Course Ditribution and Global Support
• BISYS and Dearborn Kaplan Education
• Financial Education Authority Websites
• Egyptian Investment Institute
• India Presidential Authorities - Pos. Est. 2009
• Wealth Management Standards Council China
• The China International Finance Forum
• Tax and Estate Planning Law Society
• and many more.

American Academy of Financial Management™ AAFM™ Press Release Statement

The AAFM ™ was founded via a merger between the American Academy of Financial Management & Analysts (AAFMA) and the Founders Advisory Committee of the Original Tax and Estate Planning Law Review ™. The AAFMA was originally established in as a professional organization for investment managers, lawyers, and analysts. The Law Review was founded to examine strategic wealth and estate planning issues for Law, CPA, PhD, and MBA graduates and to award the wealth management, estate planning, and tax designations. AAFM currently recognizes over 125,000 PhDs, Lawyers, CPAs, AACSB Graduates, & Masters Degree Holders as associates, executive members, fellows, and certified members in over 150 nations. Presently, AAFM has over 200 thousand associate member candidates. As there had not been a graduate professional financial organization specifically for accredited degree holders, MBAs, CPAs, Lawyers and PhDs, the AAFM ™ has met this need and become the organization of choice for highly educated individuals or industry experts because AAFM requires an accredited college degree for membership and certification.

Furthermore, AAFM ™ has several board certifications that are compliance friendly and listed on investor education websites. Further, AAFM is recognized by authorities sources worldwide such as the US Department of Labor BLS Brochures and the Department of Education Registry and Directory. The AAFM ™ also has negotiated global trademark agreements with the CFP ™ Board of Standards and the CFA ™ Institute.

AAFM ™ is the regulatory body for the much sought after AAFM ™ Designations and Credentials. The AAFM ™ Executive Designation Programs provide the assurance that the holder has met the suggested criteria for graduate credentials set out in the Ibanez US Supreme Court Decision. Further, the AAFM board certification requires passing 6 different levels of standards. Acceptance into the AAFM is a high distinction and requires the holder to possess a graduate level portfolio of skills and knowledge. Acceptance statistics are not high, and the designation when achieved is a high honor strictly for accredited degree graduates.

The AAFM ™ has seen a meteoric rise to affluence and membership in recent years, as financial executives and managers strive to maintain and augment their education, credentials, integrity, and skill sets. AAFM has extended strategic educational recognition to 560 business schools globally through the top business school accreditation agencies worldwide, The AACSB ™ International and The ACBSP ™. AAFM also has a direct alliance with the RSOF Royal Society of Fellows Worldwide. AAFM ™ and the RSOF ™ endorse the most elite global conferences on finance, tax, investments, law, wealth management, portfolio management, economics, and ecommerce issues. The AAFM Board of Standards is also a founder of the Accreditation Council for Finance and Management (ACFM) The Accreditation Council is an independent accreditation body seeking to identify the best in management and finance education and training. ACFM also serves as a ranking, policy, accrediting and standards organization.

AAFM’s mission is to serve its global membership and stakeholders as a world leader in educating and reinforcing the international knowledge of executives and potential leadership of financial based institutions. AAFM ™ now has representative offices and courses in the New York, Hong Kong, Miami, London, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico, Beijing, India, Dubai, Taiwan, Vietnam, Europe, Kuwait, Latin America and South America, Singapore, The Caribbean, Europe, and more. Moreover, AAFM ™ is a candidate for recognition from the United Nations. AAFM ™ mandates consent to high standards of professional conduct, and AAFM activities are International in nature and scope.

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