When arguing that financial advisors should join lawyers and doctors in having professional credentials with legal protections, the new head of the Financial Planning Association is fond of quoting one of the founding fathers of the planning industry. James Lee, who became president of the FPA’s board of directors in January, is particularly drawn to wealth management guru Dick Wagner’s prediction that financial planning would become “the most important authentic profession of the 21st century.” Wagner, a lawyer-turned-advisor who died in 2017, used those words in his 2016 book “Financial Planning 3.0,” which argues that financial planners deserve the same sort of professional standing now accorded to lawyers, doctors, certified…