
Professional Certifications
Professional Certifications
Program Description
Upon completion of this program, you will:
- Understand ethical duties, the fiduciary standard, and the fundamentals of the major areas of financial planning.
- Be able to increase productivity, build confidence, and be able to make recommendations based on building long-term client relationships.
- Have a comprehensive review of financial issues that clients face, enabling you to understand and address the total financial picture of each.
- Have learned real-life examples, figures, and tables, translating financial planning concepts into everyday work experience, making what you learn immediately applicable to your business.
Learning objectives and topics covered throughout the AAMS® program include:
- The Asset Management Process
- Risk, Return, & Investment Performance
- Asset Allocation & Selection
- Investment Strategies
- Taxation of Investments
- Investing for Retirement
- Deferred Compensation & Other Benefit Plans
- Insurance Products for Investment Clients
- Estate Planning for Investment Clients
- Fiduciary, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues for Advisors
Program Description
Learning objectives and topics covered throughout the ABFP® program include:
- Understanding behavioral finance theories
- Integrating research and practical knowledge from the behavioral finance field
- Applying informed ideas within the client setting
- Demonstrating creative critical thinking of the nature, sources, consequences, and effective management of financial behavior in theory and practice
Upon completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Understand behavioral finance theories.
- Integrate research and practical knowledge from the behavioral finance field.
- Apply informed ideas within the client setting.
- Demonstrate creative critical thinking of the nature, sources, consequences, and effective management of financial behavior in theory and practice.
Program Description
Learning objectives and topics covered in the ADPA® program include, but are not limited to:
- Wealth Transfers for Domestic Partners
- Federal Taxation Issues for Domestic Partners
- Retirement Planning and Relationship Issues for Domestic Partners
- Planning for Financial, Medical, and End-of-Life Needs of Domestic Partners
- Qualitative Planning Considerations
Upon completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Identify reasons individuals involved in a domestic partnership need alternative financial planning options.
- Address specific situations in which wealth transfers, federal taxation laws, retirement laws and benefits, and planning for possible incompetence and end-of-life needs by such individuals is different than similar planning done for individuals who are recognized as legally married under federal and state laws.
- Understand the purpose, nontax characteristics, and tax consequences of financial planning techniques commonly used in these areas, and their advantages and disadvantages, for individuals involved in domestic partnerships.
- Apply specific financial planning techniques that benefit individuals involved in a domestic partnership, and help compensate for the adverse effects of financial laws or benefits that are either unavailable to such individuals or provide less protection to them.
Program Description
Upon completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Differentiate investment principles and theory
- Assess characteristics and risks of various asset classes and investment vehicles, including real assets and alternative investments
- Apply approaches to asset allocation
- Examine ethical duties and the fiduciary standard
- Differentiate the taxation of various types of investments
- Evaluate investment and retirement planning issues
- Assess factors pertaining to client suitability
- Analyze the purpose of and elements in an investment policy statement
Program Description
Upon completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Identify and plan for the complex needs of high-net-worth clients.
- Increase productivity, build confidence and be able to make recommendations based on building long-term client relationships with high-net-worth clients.
- Understand the comprehensive view of financial issues that clients face, enabling you to understand and address the total financial picture of each.
- Apply real-life examples, figures, and tables, translating financial planning concepts into everyday work experience, making what you learn immediately applicable to your business.
- Identify risk management issues with a significant potential impact for high-net-worth individuals.
- Identify insurance products targeted to high-net-worth individuals.
- Identify or explain the purposes (uses), characteristics, and factors to be considered in using a given business exit planning technique.
- Identify characteristics, risks, styles, and strategies of hedge funds, real estate investments, and private equity.
- Identify and help clients to overcome the behavioral biases that lead to suboptimal results for many investors.
- Identify tax preference items or adjustments for the alternative minimum tax for noncorporate taxpayers.
- Analyze a situation to determine the necessity of estimated tax payments or to calculate the amount of investment interest expense that is deductible.
- Analyze a situation to calculate the self-employment tax or alternative minimum tax for noncorporate taxpayers.
- Identify and explain the advantages or disadvantages of various forms of nonqualified deferred compensation.
- Identify or explain the advantages or disadvantages of lifetime gifting.
- Identify or explain the purposes (uses), characteristics, and factors to be considered in using a given asset protection technique for a high-net-worth client.
- Analyze the current regulatory requirements of advisers and brokers including Regulation Best Interest and identify expectations of fiduciary advisers.
Learning objectives and topics covered in the AWMA ® program include, but are not limited to:
- Getting to know your High-Net-Worth client
- Investment Risk, Return, and Performance
- Advanced Investment Products & Strategies
- Considerations for Business Owners
- Income Tax Strategies for High-Net-Worth Clients
- Executive Benefits Planning for High-Net-Worth Clients
- Estate Planning for High-Net-Worth clients
- Fiduciary and Regulatory Issues for Financial Services Professionals
Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor (CMFC ® )
CRPC® — Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor℠
Program Description
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Gain practical knowledge and a competitive edge by strengthening technical skills in an evolving planning niche.
- Acquire skills needed to expand your business by meeting more of your clients’ needs.
- Address an array of client situations using the various types of plans and models studied.
Learning Objectives and Topics Covered:
- Maximizing the Client Experience During the Retirement Planning Process
- Principles and Strategies When Investing for Retirement
- Understanding Social Security, Military and Government Retirement Benefits
- Bridging the Income Gap: Identifying Other Sources of Retirement Income
- Navigating Health Care Options in Retirement
- Making the Emotional and Financial Transition to Retirement
- Designing Optimal Retirement Income Stream
- Achieving Income Tax and Estate Planning Objectives in Retirement
- Fiduciary, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues for Advisors
CRPS® — Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist℠
Program Description
Learning Objectives and Topics Covered:
- Introduction to ERISA and the Fiduciary Standard
- Employer-Funded Defined Contribution Plans
- Participant-Directed Retirement Plans
- Retirement Plan Solutions for Small Business Owners
- Retirement Plan Selection, Design, and Implementation
- Administering ERISA-Compliant Plans
- Working with Participants
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Gain practical knowledge and a competitive edge by strengthening technical skills in an evolving planning niche.
- Acquire skills needed to expand your business by meeting more of your clients’ needs.
- Address an array of client situations using the various types of plans and models studied
Program Description
Upon completion of this course, you will:
- Understand the fundamental concepts and terminology of financial planning;
- Have worked through a “real world” case study that applied many important concepts related to financial planning;
- Have a higher competence of financial planning concepts, allowing your company to benefit from improved client support provided by you due to your increased knowledge and skills; and
- Gain an edge on the sales competition by increasing your understanding of a broad range of financial topics, making you more aware of potential sales opportunities
Learning Objectives and Topics Covered:
- The Financial Planning Process
- Business Ownership, Cash Management, and the Use of Debt
- The Time Value of Money
- Insurance Basics & Property Insurance
- Life & Health Insurance
- Investment Basics & Strategies
- Retirement Planning
- Tax Implications of Financial Decisions
- Estate Planning Basics
- Case Study & Master Index
FPQP® — Financial Paraplanner Qualified Professional℠ (disponible en español)
Descripción del Programa
Al finalizar el curso:
- Comprenderá los conceptos fundamentales y la terminología de la planificación financiera;
- Habrá trabajado con un estudio de caso real, aplicando muchos conceptos importantes relacionados con la planificación financiera;
- Tendrá una mayor competencia en conceptos de planificación financiera, lo que permitirá a su empresa beneficiarse de un mejor apoyo al cliente gracias a sus mayores conocimientos y aptitudes; y
- Obtendrá una ventaja sobre la competencia en ventas aumentando su comprensión de una amplia gama de temas financieros, lo que lo hará más consciente de las posibles oportunidades de venta.
Objetivos de Aprendizaje y Temas Tratados:
- El proceso de planificación financiera
- Titularidad de sociedades comerciales, gestión del efectivo y uso de la deuda
- El valor temporal del dinero
- Aspectos básicos del seguro y seguro de propiedad
- Seguro médico y de vida
- Aspectos básicos y estrategias de inversión
- Planificación de la jubilación
- Consecuencias fiscales de las decisiones financieras
- Aspectos básicos de la planificación patrimonial
- Estudio de caso e índice maestro
SE-AWMA® — Sports & Entertainment Accredited Wealth Management Advisor℠
Program Description
Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:
- Identify and plan for the complex needs of high-net-worth clients
- Increase productivity, build confidence, and be able to make recommendations based on building long-term client relationships with high-net-worth clients
- Have a comprehensive view of financial issues that clients face, enabling you to understand and address the total financial picture of each
- Translate financial planning concepts into everyday work experience, making what you learn immediately applicable to your business
- Identify risk management issues with significant potential impact for high-net-worth individuals
- Identify insurance products targeted to high-net-worth individuals
- Identify or explain the purposes (uses), characteristics, and factors to be considered in using a given business exit planning technique
- Identify characteristics, risks, styles, and strategies of hedge funds or fund of hedge funds, real estate investments, and private equity
- Identify and help clients overcome the behavioral biases that lead to suboptimal results
- Identify tax preference items or adjustments for the alternative minimum tax for non-corporate taxpayers
- Analyze a situation to determine the necessity of estimated tax payments or to calculate the amount of investment interest expense that is deductible
- Analyze a situation to calculate the self-employment tax or alternative minimum tax for non-corporate taxpayers
- Identify and explain advantages or disadvantages of various forms of non-qualified deferred compensation
- Identify or explain advantages or disadvantages of lifetime gifting
- Identify or explain the purposes (uses), characteristics, and factors to be considered in using a given asset protection technique for a high-net-worth client
- Understand the special issues, key people, and challenges of working with athletes and entertainers
- Analyze the qualitative planning strategies available to athletes and entertainers
- Evaluate labor unions and their respective employee and retirement benefits available to athletes and entertainers
- Analyze the special cash flow and taxation circumstances as they relate to athletes and entertainers
- Analyze the business planning strategies available to athletes and entertainers
- Evaluate the estate planning strategies available to athletes and entertainers
Learning objectives and topics covered in the SE-AWMA®program include, but are not limited to:
- Getting to Know Your High-Net-Worth Client
- Investment Risk, Return, and Performance
- Advanced Investment Products and Strategies
- Considerations for Business Owners
- Income Tax Planning for High-Net-Worth Clients
- Executive Benefits Planning for High-Net-Worth Clients
- Estate Planning for High-Net-Worth Clients
- Fiduciary and Regulatory Issues for Financial Services Professionals
- Special Issues for Athletes and Entertainers
WMS℠ — Wealth Management Specialist℠
Program Description
Learning Objectives and Topics Covered:
- Fundamental Considerations in the Wealth Management Process
- Time Value of Money Principles
- Credit and Lending
- Education Funding
- Measurement of Risk and Return
- The Asset Allocation Process
- Investment Strategies
- Tax Implications and Strategies in the Financial Planning Process
- Insurance Products in Wealth Management
- Equity Compensation and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans
- Business Ownership and Planning
- Estate Planning
Specifically, you will:
- Understand the core financial planning subjects of insurance, investment, retirement, income tax, and estate tax planning.
- Understand education funding options.
- Understand credit and lending options available to clients.
- Understand the time value of money and how to use an HP 10bII+ financial calculator.
QPFE℠ - Qualified Personal Finance Educator℠
Topics covered
- Determining Your Needs, Wants, and Money Goals
- Budgeting: Managing What You Spend
- Moving Your Money: Banking, Mobile Payments, and Loans
- Managing Your Credit: Credit Cards, Credit Scores, and Other Money Sources
- Buying a Car
- Getting Your Own Place
- Saving and Investing Your Money
- Building Your Financial Security: Life’s Milestones, Retirement and Estate Planning
- Paying Your Taxes
- Planning Your Future: What’s Next?
- Funding Your Higher Education
- Making Buying Decisions: The Influence of Social Media, Environmental and Economic Awareness, and Social Responsibility
- Safeguarding Digital Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Other Online Best Practices
- Managing Your Personal Finances: A Capstone Experience
Certificate Programs
Upon completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Compare and contrast ETFs to other pooled investment vehicles such as mutual funds
- Evaluate the use of ETFs in active and passive investment strategies
- Consider ETF investments across a broad range of asset classes
- Construct a portfolio using ETFs to pursue client needs
Learning Objectives and Topics Covered:
- Overview of the ETF market
- Introduction to ETFs
- ETF liquidity and trading
- ETFs: New ways of investing
- Choosing the right ETF
- Portfolio construction and management
The Accredited Investment Fiduciary® (AIF®) Training is a certificate program, whereby a certificate of completion is issued upon successful program completion. The program does not award a professional certification (i.e., a credential that demonstrates the holder's specialized knowledge, skills, and experience).
Fi360, a Broadridge Company, owns the certification mark AIF®, which it authorizes use of by individuals who successfully complete initial and ongoing designation requirements.
The ETFs & Portfolio Construction program is a certificate program, whereby a certificate of completion is issued upon successful program completion. The program does not award a professional certification (i.e., a credential that demonstrates the holder’s specialized knowledge, skills, and experience).
Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal.
This material is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument. Similarly, the material does not constitute, and should not be relied on as, legal, regulatory, accounting, tax, investment, trading, or other advice. Any financial, tax, or legal information contained herein is included for informational purposes only.
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Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) owns the certification marks CFP® in the United States, which it authorizes use of by individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.
The College for Financial Planning®—a Kaplan Company does not certify individuals to use the CFP® certification mark. CFP® certification is granted only by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. to those persons who, in addition to completing an educational requirement such as this CFP Board-Registered Program, have met its ethics, experience, and examination requirements. The College for Financial Planning®—a Kaplan Company is an education and exam prep review provider for the CFP® Certification Examination administered by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. CFP Board does not endorse any education or review course or receive financial remuneration from education or review course providers.