Financial Planning Review Breakthrough Recognition Will Boost Faculty Tenure Opportunities and Strengthen the Profession

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CFP Board today announced that its peer‑reviewed academic journal, Financial Planning Review (FPR), has been included in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List (JQL) — a recognition that underscores the journal’s growing prominence in global academic research on financial planning.

“Academic recognition fuels the future of the profession,” said CFP Board CEO Kevin R Keller, CAE.

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“Academic recognition fuels the future of the profession,” said CFP Board CEO Kevin R Keller, CAE. “At a time when financial planning faces a dire shortage of faculty, recognition like this helps scholars advance their careers, supports tenure and promotion, and strengthens university programs that prepare the next generation of CFP^® professionals.”

The ABDC Journal Quality List is a widely used and respected resource for assessing the quality and impact of business‑related academic journals. The inclusion of Financial Planning Review marks an important milestone and affirms the value of its contributions to the financial planning discipline.

“This recognition from ABDC signals the increasing academic relevance of financial planning research and the growing appetite for high‑quality scholarship in this field,” said FPR Executive Editor Stephen Horan, Ph.D. "We are grateful to the authors, reviewers and editors whose commitment to excellence made this achievement possible."

Launched in 2018, Financial Planning Review advances research that strengthens the theoretical and empirical foundations of the financial planning profession. Housed in the CFP Board Center for Financial Planning and published by Wiley, FRP is a diamond open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal that features research within financial planning, as well as disciplines that directly or indirectly relate to the financial planning body of knowledge or financial planning practice. A multidisciplinary forum, FPR advances financial planning as an academic discipline and a profession by bringing together different strands of research spanning investments, behavioral finance, retirement planning, consumer protection and public policy, consumer decision‑making and other fields critical to improving financial outcomes for individuals and families.

“This recognition is significant for the academic community working to advance financial planning as a rigorous discipline,” said Martin Seay, Ph.D., CFP^®, professor of Personal Financial Planning and Director of the Institute for Financial Education and Prosperity at Kansas State University and 2026 Board Chair-Elect of CFP Board. “The ranking from the ABDC affirms the quality, credibility and growing impact of the research published in Financial Planning Review. It sends a clear signal to scholars around the world that financial planning research is not only valued but also essential to improving financial outcomes for households and strengthening the profession.”

ABDC JQL recognition is part of FPR’s long-term efforts toward indexing. Since 2022, FPR has been indexed in Scopus and Scimago. FPR has entered the ABDC JQL as a B-ranked journal, which is unusual as most journals, especially newer ones such as FPR, enter the list as a C-ranked journal.

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ABOUT CFP BOARD

CFP Board is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board consists of two affiliated organizations focused on advancing the financial planning profession for the public’s benefit. CFP Board of Standards sets and upholds standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^® certification — widely recognized by the public, advisors and firms as the standard for financial planners — so that the public has access to the benefits of competent and ethical financial planning. CFP^® certification is held by more than 107,000 people in the U.S. CFP Board Center for Financial Planning addresses diversity and workforce development challenges and conducts and publishes research that adds to the financial planning profession’s body of knowledge.