Member Price: $1795 Non-Member Price: $2395
Learn how a client’s financial goals translate into their investment policy statements, inform investment decisions, what it means to be a prudent investor and how financial and non-financial assets work together. Learn how to evaluate inheritors’ financial goals, legal structures and assets in order to develop a holistic post-inheritance investment portfolio management strategy. Apply approaches to interpret and restate clients’ wealth strategies by drawing from their financial plan documents. Develop an understanding of the unique characteristics of non-financial assets and alternative investments to enable you to deliver holistic advice and service. Explore current trends in sustainable and responsible investing, and the importance of proper titling of assets.
Member Price: $895 Non-Member Price: $1095
This certificate program is designed to accelerate onboarding of professionals moving into fiduciary-based advisory roles.
Learn and apply essential fiduciary principles—including wealth planning, investment management and account administration—with this set of courses designed to accelerate new advisors' readiness to work directly with wealth clients in a fiduciary capacity. Courses on ethics, fiduciary risk and compliance responsibilities cover responses to common client situations, as well as strategies for working with a team that includes non-fiduciary advisors.
Member Price: $395 Non-Member Price: $495
A top priority for fiduciary professionals is holding their clients’ interests ahead of their own. Learn the ethical standards applied to fiduciary professionals—integrity, the duty to avoid conflicts of interest, competency, fairness and professionalism, and the responsibility not to engage in unauthorized practices. Gain a full understanding of fiduciary standards, rules and regulations designed to provide beneficiaries with the highest level of care and consideration by financial professionals.
Member Price: $1295 Non-Member Price: $1795
Develop fiduciary skills that go beyond foundational technical knowledge to meet evolving client expectations and behaviors. Learn key skills that enable exceptional relationship management including the ability to identify clients’ generational, gender and cultural characteristics, emotions and other factors to enable in-depth discovery conversations, meaningful dialogue and consultative presentations. This certificate will position you as a skilled advisor to not only your current clients, but also to future generations.
Member Price: $595 Non-Member Price: $795
Gain a full understanding of the regulatory basis and importance of fiduciary compliance, its elements and how it affects your role as an advisor. Learn key aspects of federal and other environmental laws, elements of fiduciary liability and steps fiduciaries can take to manage risk. Learn the importance of client due diligence and ongoing monitoring throughout the life of the relationship. Courses provide a foundation in the regulations, bank policies, procedures and relationship management responsibilities that impact fiduciary risk management and compliance.
Member Price: $2395 Non-Member Price: $3095
Learn how personal finance, tax, insurance, retirement and estate planning work together to help clients define and achieve their objectives during and beyond their lifetime. Learn the tax considerations and gifting strategies surrounding individual income tax, fiduciary income tax and federal estate tax. Gain foundational knowledge on the fundamentals of insurance and the features of life insurance policies and annuities. Explore planning considerations Individual Retirement Accounts, how benefits are coordinated with the estate plan and the planning aspects of various retirement plans. Gain a better understanding of the marital deduction, charitable techniques to accomplish estate and financial planning objectives and tax implications of education plans and how trusts can be used for this purpose. Learn how clients’ financial lives are reflected on their balance sheets, how to analyze and interpret the balance sheets and legal entity structures used by clients to hold assets and how they align with their strategies and goals.
Member Price: $895 Non-Member Price: $1195
Explore the requirements to create a trust, common types of personal trusts, account acceptance and termination considerations, and other factors to consider in making discretionary distributions. Learn about the scope of a trustee’s duty of authority, typical trust guidance and common discretionary standards to make sound discretionary decisions. Discover preliminary matters relating to guardian administration, including responsibilities in estate asset inventory and asset management, closing a guardianship/conservatorship and how a special needs trust can protect current or anticipated family funds without jeopardizing government benefits.
Member Price: $795 Non-Member Price: $795
A comprehensive overview of HSA requirements for financial institutions and benefits administrators. Designed to help HSA providers and their staff master key requirements, situations, and strategies to better serve HSA account holders, the certificate is the product of HSA Consulting Services and its president and founder, Roy Ramthun, and is distributed in cooperation with the ABA HSA Council.
Registration also includes a digital copy of the HSA Owners' Manual.
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