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Top 5 Benefits of Earning the AAMS® Designation

Become an asset-management expert and improve your career with the AAMS® designation.

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Industry Recognition:

The AAMS® designation is recognized as the industry-benchmark for asset management credentials and is endorsed by the top financial firms.

Stackable Credits:

AAMS® designees receive credit for the completion of FP511 in our CFP® certification education program. This allows you to save both time and money.

Tangible Career Benefits:

Financial planning professionals working in a financial planning role both the year before and year after receiving their most recent specialized professional designation such as the AAMS® designation reported an average 16% earnings increase in the year after earning that professional designation.

Fulfill Continuing Education Requirements:

For CFP® professionals who must complete continuing education requirements as part of certification renewal, program completion fulfills 28 hours of continuing education.

If you currently hold a professional designation from the College, completion of a new professional designation program fulfills 16 hours of continuing education as part of the renewal of your current designation. 

Skills That Benefit You and Your Clients:

Learn to better serve individual, small business, or investment clients while advancing your own financial career.

"The AAMS® program is by far the best that I have come across. It is informative, precise, extremely well written, and it has immediate theoretical and practical values. This program gave me more knowledge to help structure my communication with my clients. The AAMS® program should be a requirement for anyone involved in asset allocation and money management."

 -Lev R.

16% Earnings Increase: Earnings increases are dependent on numerous factors other than, or in addition to, completion of the specialized financial designation including specific employment conditions and individual experience. The College for Financial Planning®—a Kaplan Company does not guarantee any earnings increase resulting directly from such designation. Results are the findings of a quantitative survey conducted by the College for Financial Planning between June 27 and August 7, 2023. For this survey, a sample of 951 2022 and 2023 graduates of the College for Financial Planning was interviewed online in English. This earnings increase was based on 366 graduates with a specialized financial designation (AAMS®, ABFP®, ADPA®, APMA®, AWMA®, CRPC®, CRPS®, CSRIC®, FPQP®, SE-AWMA®, WMS℠) who were employed in a financial planning role both the year before and year after receiving their most recent professional designation.