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Choosing advanced education as a financial advisor has become increasingly complex over the years, as the proliferation of designations has led not only to a confusion amongst consumers about which are credible and which are not, but has similarly led to uncertainty and frustration amongst advisors trying to identify which programs will add genuine knowledge and educational value and are worth pursuing.

In this guest post, retirement income professor and researcher Wade Pfau shares his perspective on three of the leading most prominent and rigorous retirement income designations - the Certified Retirement Counselor (CRC), the Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP), and the Retirement Management Analyst (RMA) - as someone who has studied this body of knowledge extensively, and in fact has helped to design curriculum and teach content for several of the programs.

If you're trying to decide whether to pursue advanced education in the specialty of retirement income - and struggling to determine which designation in particular to choose - this should be helpful to you as a starting point for making a decision about which curriculum, program, and sponsoring organization is the best fit for you.

Wade D. Pfau, Ph.D., CFA, is the Professor of Retirement Income in the Ph.D. in Financial and Retirement Planning program, Co-Director of the American College Center for Retirement Income, and RICP program director at The American College of Financial Services.

Pfau is a co-editor of the Journal of Personal Finance. He has spoken at national conferences of organizations for financial professionals such as the CFA Institute, FPA, NAPFA, AICPA-PFP, and AFS. He also publishes frequently in a wide variety of academic and practitioner research journals. He is also an active blogger on retirement research and maintains the educational Retirement Researcher website, and you can follow Wade on Twitter.

With more than 50 certification programs based on the withdrawal phase of the planning lifecycle, advisors are faced with a paralyzing choice about which designation provides the most valuable curriculum. The issues surrounding withdrawal planning differ starkly from those encountered during the accumulation phase. An April 2013 report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau highlighted the consumer confusion over this issue. This confusion undoubtedly extends to financial advisors as well.

Full disclosure: I [Wade Pfau] am personally involved with two of these designation programs. I am employed by the RICP sponsoring organization and contribute to its curriculum. I am a former curriculum director for the RMASM, and I still participate in educational programs.

Interest in retirement designations is growing as more Americans find themselves near retirement and responsible for developing retirement income strategies. Planning for retirement income is fundamentally different from accumulating assets, as retirees quickly discover. Retirement is not about maximizing risk-adjusted returns; it is about meeting spending goals over an uncertain lifetime. Traditional concepts like modern portfolio theory have very little to say about meeting retirement needs.

Each designation takes a different approach to accreditation and education. Included in the table are some basic numbers regarding the time to completion, but this is an important issue, and is discussed later in a section regarding each program. All three designations require passing multiple-choice examinations. The CRC designation is the cheapest of the programs, as it requires a specific body of knowledge but does not require formal course enrollment. Each designation includes continuing education requirements as part of the recertification process, and a code of ethics plays an important role in all of the programs.

The non-profit InFRE (International Foundation for Retirement Education) created the Certified Retirement Counselor (CRC) certification in 1999 with cooperation from the Center for Financial Responsibility at Texas Tech University. This certification stresses accumulation planning in addition to withdrawal planning and risk management.

A unique feature of this certification is that it is independently accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies. The implication is that there is not a specific curriculum that must be mastered, but rather that enrollees must become familiar with the knowledge and the skill set to fulfill the tasks of a retirement counselor. The examination tests how well the candidate has achieved those objectives.

While there is not a specific curriculum to study, InFRE created an optional set of four study guides to facilitate preparations. These study guides were created separately from the exam creation process, so they do not directly teach to the test. The study guides cover the fundamentals of accumulation planning, investments, retirement plan design and withdrawal planning. Enrollees generally spend at least 25 hours studying each of these guides. Another 18 hours of recorded review sessions are also available to those self-studying for this certification.

InFRE Managing Director Kevin Seibert indicated that some of the special features of the CRC certification include: focus on the middle market (as opposed to higher net worth clients), independent accreditation, partnership with a university that offers a leading financial planning program, support from various retirement industry organizations, requirement of a background check prior to certification and adherence to a code of ethics.

According to David Littell, the director of the New York Life Center for Retirement Income at The American College, each of the three courses for the RICP designation includes about 25 hours of video and lecture content, a detailed study outline and practice questions. Each course takes students about 40 to 60 hours to work through at their own pace. His expectation is that each course will take 3-4 months to complete, so the designation can be earned within one year. Exams are offered at local testing centers throughout the country when students have finished each of the courses. Designees must also have three years of work experience in the financial services industry and adhere to a code of ethics.

Littell emphasized that strengths of the curriculum include its practicality and comprehensiveness, as it looks at a variety of withdrawal planning approaches. It includes detailed discussions about claiming Social Security , addressing long-term care and health-care needs, securing housing and planning for income taxes and legacies.

The RMASM curriculum seeks to create a sound theoretical framework for withdrawal planning pre- and post-retirement. The examinations focus on core competencies. The theoretical foundation of the RMASM designation is based on lifecycle finance, an approach that emphasizes meeting essential needs, as opposed to a more probabilistic approach based on the likelihood of failure. The constantly evolving curriculum includes contributions from academics and practitioners. The fifth edition now being released with Peng Chen as curriculum director includes contributions from Michael Zwecher, Larry Kotlikoff, Dana Anspach and Michael Kitces.

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