The 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 recognized 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, or economist .© 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, 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.

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The AAFM Board of Standards ™ was founded in 1996, 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 120,000 PhDs, Lawyers, CPAs, AACSB Graduates, & Masters Degree Holders as associate members and executive members in over 141 nations. As there had not been a graduate professional financial organization specifically for 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 7 primary compliance friendly board certifications that are listed and recognized on the Authorative Investor Education ™ Websites, and AAFM is also recognized on the US Department of Labor BLS Brochures. AAFM ™ also has negotiated global trademark agreements with the CFP ™ Board of Standards and the CFA ™ Institute. AAFM is best known as the 1st to extend direct global recognition to the top 2 business school accreditation agencys that accredit 560+ business schools worlwide. Through this AAFM Board policy agreement, AAFM is able to accept course credit for advanced standing from the government recognized business schools globally. Moreover, AAFM has executive training available worldwide to accomodate those seeking executive board certification.

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 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.

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 strategic partnerships with 560 business schools globally through the top two business school acreditation agencys worldwide, The AACSB ™ International and The ACBSP ™. AAFM also has an alliance with the Asian Center for Professional Excellence, The Asian Bankers Association, The RSOF Royal Society of Fellows Worldwide, and AAFM ™ provides has provided some of the most elite global conferences on finance, tax, investments, law, wealth management, portfolio management, economics, and ecommerce issues on several continents.

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 in the US World Trade Center N.O. Center, Hong Kong, Beijing, India, Dubai, Kuwait, Latin America and South America, Singapore, The Carribean, 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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