Congratulations on passing your exam and earning your QKA^® Credential!

How to Promote Yourself as a QKA^® Credentialed Professional:

Your QKA^® credential demonstrates your expertise and increases your value to current – and future – clients.  So how can you promote your new credential?

• Add your credential to your email signature.
• Include your credential after your name in print and electronic correspondence, including – but not limited to – your resume, CV business card, email signature, and LinkedIn profile.
• Frame your certificate. If you haven’t received a paper copy of your certificate, please contact rpa@usaretirement.org.
• Promote your credential through a press release and on social media.
• Let your employer know! Mention your credential status during your performance review or any other professional evaluations you have throughout the year. Use the following key talking points for reference:
  • The QKA^® credential is the only one of its kind available to advisors today.
  • The QKA^® course is extremely rigorous and covers a wide range of advanced topics.
  • By completing the QKA^®, you have gained a strong understanding of how to effectively evaluate, design, implement and manage an employer-sponsored retirement plan.

Maintaining Your Credential:

ASPPA members that have earned a retirement plan professional designation have demonstrated the knowledge and skill required to support defined contribution plans and defined benefit plans subject to ERISA. ASPPA designation holders have committed to adhere to the principles and rules of the ASPPA Code of Professional Conduct. ASPPA designation holders also commit to a continuing education requirement designed to ensure that as an ASPPA designation holder, they continue to develop the knowledge and skill required to serve as competent and ethical professionals.

Continuing Education Requirements:

This Continuing Education Policy applies to the following designations:

• QKA^® – Qualified 401(k) Administrator^TM
• QKC – Qualified 401(k) Consultant
• QPA – Qualified Plan Administrator
• CPC – Certified Pension Consultant
• APM – Associated Professional Member

General Continuing Education Requirement

ASPPA designation holders must complete forty (40) hours of Continuing Education (CE) every two years.
The two-year cycle begins on the first calendar day of each odd numbered year and ends on the last
calendar day of the subsequent even numbered year.

Review the ASPPA CE Policy here.

Questions:

Read the comprehensive ASPPA CE policy or contact Customer Care by calling (800) 308-6714 Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET.