PFP on FacebookWelcome to the Department of Personal Financial Planning
Why Personal Financial Planning?
Personal Financial Planning (PFP) at the University of Missouri is regarded as a premier department of its kind in the nation, offering nine CFP® Board registered degree programs and certificates. PFP utilizes quality instruction, direct interaction with financial service professionals and hands-on experience in financial planning and counseling to prepare graduates to enter the financial services industry. Our emphasis is on developing new professionals who will have the quantitative, communication, and relationship skills necessary to effectively serve clients in the financial planning market.
Our research addresses financial planning, expenditure, and policy issues that are central to households' daily decisions, as well as to policy maker deliberations. Educational programs based on this research and that of others is delivered to the Missouri public through our extension division and its network of professionals located throughout Missouri.
We pride ourselves in the knowledge that we are committed to improving the financial practices of households and the advice that they receive. Financial literacy is the cornerstone on which individuals and families build their financial and economic goals. We believe that the financial security of households is a key to personal freedom and economic development. We recognize that achieving economic well-being is a value-driven process that mandates superb communication between the client, advisor, and other financial professionals. It is as important to understand the relationship between household characteristics and their economic and financial decisions as it is to understand the techniques of economic and financial analysis. PFP provides a curriculum where this complementary relationship is fully recognized, developed, nurtured, and demonstrated.
Our undergraduate and graduate programs also examine personal finance planning in the context of an international and culturally diverse world. We have a diverse faculty and student body, which results in an environment enriched by discussion of similarity and difference in values, economic and financial resources, and goals across geographic location and ideological positions.
It is our belief that a nation is no stronger than its families. To choose a career designed to help households achieve important goals is a very rewarding experience: personally, professionally, financially, and spiritually. Nothing creates a sense of accomplishment more than knowing you have helped a family grow stronger. To hire a student that is ready to sit for the national CFP exam and that has the ability to listen to their client's dreams, is invaluable.
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What do professionals say about Personal Financial Planning?
"Quality services and products, careful analysis and technology, valuable as they are, cannot replace the human touch led by the passion of the heart. In fact, everything we rely on is enhanced by it. This Department leads the way."
-Jim Warren, CFP ®, President Warren Financial Services
"My success in life is due in large part to the Personal Financial Planning Department. A curriculum built around the "real world" truly helps me excel in my profession. I owe sincere thanks and gratitude to the Department."
- Jim Deutsch, CFP ®, President Smith-Moore and Company
