Sponsorship provides new tools and resources for financial planners

For Release:  March 4, 2010

Denver, Colo. – TD AMERITRADE Institutional today signed on as a national sponsor of the Financial Planning Association^® (FPA^®), the leadership and advocacy organization connecting those who need, support and deliver professional financial planning.

As part of the sponsorship, TD AMERITRADE Institutional is the exclusive sponsor of the FPA Practice Management Center, a website focused on providing tools and resources to help financial planning professionals manage and advance their business. Because of the sponsorship, FPA members will have access to more free webinars, tools, products and resources on the Practice Management Center.

"FPA and TD AMERITRADE Institutional have a strong, collaborative relationship and we are pleased to have them as a national sponsor. Like FPA, they are dedicated to advancing the financial planning profession and FPA members will greatly benefit from the tools and resources TD AMERITRADE Institutional plans to support through this sponsorship," said Marvin W. Tuttle, Jr., CAE, FPA's Executive Director/CEO.

TD AMERITRADE Institutional is a consistent sponsor of FPA conferences; contributes regularly to FPA publications; and participates in the FPA Major Firms Advisory Group, a group of major firm executives who meet monthly to discuss financial planning profession trends, how to effectively manage financial planning departments and how to improve the financial planning profession. TD AMERITRADE Institutional is also sponsoring the FPA technology report series, a series of seven technology research reports that will compare various software and technology platforms to be released over the next two years.

"As a champion of independent investment advisors and their clients, we are thrilled to support the FPA in their mission to foster the value of financial planning and advance the financial planning profession," said Tom Bradley, president, TD AMERITRADE Institutional. "Through our sponsorship and collaboration with the FPA we solidify our commitment to advocate on behalf of independent advisors, providing new practice management tools and resources which will allow them to grow their businesses and better serve the investing public."

For more information on the FPA Practice Management site, visit www.FPAnet.org/PracticeManagement. To read more about the FPA technology report series, visit www.FPAnet.org/Learn/ResearchCenter.

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