About AAFM

About the American Academy of Financial Management™

The AAFM was founded in 1995, 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 as a professional organisation for investment managers, lawyers, and analysts. The Law Review was founded to examine strategic wealth and estate planning issues for Law, CPA, and MBA graduates and to award the financial analyst and tax designation. AAFM currently recognizes over 20,000 PhDs, Lawyers, CPAs, Business School
Graduates, & Masters Degree Holders as executive members in over 101 nations. AAFM takes pride in holding a membership with superior qualifications, experience and designations.

AAFM is the regulatory body for the much sought after AAFM Designations and Credentials. The AAFM Executive Designation Programs provides 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 six 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 honour strictly for accredited degree graduates. AAFM has strategic partnerships with a range of professional bodies and with over 800 universities globally, including the RSOF Royal Society of Fellows.

AAFM is the first Global Financial Organization to achieve recognition for the AACSB™ and ACBSP™ Internationally Accredited Business School Education and Training. NASD has also officially recognised the designations of the AAFM. (Under federal law, virtually every securities firm doing business with the US public is a member of National Association of Securities Dealers. Roughly 5,200 brokerage firms, over 96,000 branch offices and more than 664,000 registered securities representatives come under NASD’s jurisdiction.)