The State Director Victoria of CQU's Melbourne International Campus, Associate Professor Ken Bruce presented a paper for the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) Education Advisory Panel meeting in Seattle, USA on September 6-7.

The FPSB manages, develops and operates certification, education and related programs for financial planning organisations so that they can benefit and protect the global community by establishing, upholding and promoting worldwide professional standards in personal financial planning.

FPSB's commitment to excellence is represented by the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^TM and CFP^® marks. (Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. owns the marks above outside the U.S. and permits qualified individuals to use these marks to indicate that they have met FPSB's initial and ongoing certification requirements.)

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (http://www.fpa.asn.au/ ) is an affiliate member of the FPSB.

CQU will offer a Bachelor of Financial Planning program in 2008.

The FPSB's meeting was in conjunction with the USA Financial Planning Association's Annual Convention.

Professor Bruce is one of 14 experts invited from countries such as France, the UK, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia and the US to present papers and conduct workshops on the global body of knowledge of financial planning which underpins education and training programs.