Certified Fund Specialist^® | Designee Benefits

The Institute of Business & Finance membership benefits are:

• Use of the designation marks: CFS^®, CAS^®, CES™, CTS™, CIS™
• Free annual IBF Reference Series (charts, tables and graphs that you can use in your daily business)
• Wall Street Journal subscription discounts
• IBF product discounts
• IBF national referral service "Find an Advisor"
• IBF LinkedIn Alumni Group
• IBF Live Training discounts
• Access to IBF's online "discussions area"
• Quarterly updates (include studies, statistics, performance figures, commentary, white papers and current opinion from a wide range of financial publications)
• Partnerships that extend discounts (STC, Kaplan and Action Quotes)

Following initial certification and authorization to use IBF designation marks, certification must be renewed annually. By meeting IBF’s ongoing competency requirements of continuing education (30 hours of CE every two years), adhering to IBF’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice, designees' demonstrate their commitment to ongoing education and professionalism. Designees' compliance with IBF’s certification standards helps to ensure the integrity of IBF designation marks.