10 Credits: The In-the-Know Package

Provincial Life Credits: 10 credits (BC, AB, SK, MB, ON)
CFP® Certificants: 10 credits (Financial Planning)
Institute Members: 10 credits (2 Ethics)
ID CE Credits: 10 credits (3 Compliance/ Professional Development, 7 Professional Development)
MFD Credits: tba

What are your “know” requirements whether as a life agent or investment advisor? They are simple yet challenging: know your client and know your product. Develop that knowledge with these courses.

KNOW YOUR CLIENT: Its Challenges and Rewards
Provincial Life Credits: 3 credits (BC, AB, SK, MB, ON)
Provincial A&S Credits: 3 credits (AB, SK, MB, ON)
FP Canada Credits: 3 credits (Financial Planning)
Institute Members: 3 credits (includes 1 Ethics)
ID CE Credits: 3 credits (Compliance and/or Professional Development)
MFD Credits: tba
Knowing your client (KYC) takes time, training, and perseverance. It is surely one of the most challenging requirements faced by those with client responsibilities in the financial services. KYC is the basis for determining suitable investments. It is in your best interest to do a good job of KYC collection and maintenance. It is in your client’s best interest that you practice KYC to the regulatory minimums and beyond. This course puts you on the right track to accomplish those objectives. You will learn the importance of collected information and how client characteristics affect the client profile and your resulting actions. You will learn how to get the facts you need. And, you will learn some impediments to KYC. Experience the advantages of good KYC with the knowledge from this important course.

  • Addresses the new client-focussed reforms as they apply to know your client requirements;
  • Reviews what comprises essential facts and their relevance;
  • Illustrates the relationship between KYC and suitability;
  • Check your decisions with a blueprint for action.
KNOW YOUR PRODUCT: Obligations, Products, and Strategies
Provincial Life Credits: 7 credits (BC, AB, SK, MB, ON)
FP Canada Credits: 7 credits (General)
ID CE Credits: 7 credits (Professional Development)
MFD Credits: tba
Know your product (KYP): a straightforward directive that carries considerable weight. It is mandatory in order to make and complete initial recommendations and during continuity of investment ownership. KYP may encompass a limited or a wide array of investments: your knowledge requirement is not lessened if your licensing is restricted. You still must be able to impart relevant and accurate product information to your clients, answer their questions, and make meaningful product comparisons. This breakthrough course delivers a useful profile of investments that will be fundamental to your KYP. It can become your go-to reference after completing its job of continuing education:

  • Benefit from an “at a glance” overview of the characteristics of many investments from the common, like GICs, to the more esoteric, like cryptocurrency to make an initial determination of product suitability;
  • Learn the more in-depth details of investments by the application of six challenge questions across all investments covered--- from life insurance products, through investment funds, gold, REITs, and many others;
  • Review some common investing strategies with their strengths and weaknesses --- in a format that encourages consistency of information.
If developing and delivering sound recommendations is your priority, start here.

Knowledge becomes know-how in these courses.

$124.95

$124.95