Approved IAR CE Courses

This course provides an overview of recent regulatory developments and enforcement actions relevant to investment adviser representatives. It emphasizes ethical best practices and fiduciary responsibility in light of current trends and compliance expectations.

This course provides investment adviser representatives with a foundational understanding of mutual fund structures, strategies, and selection processes. It emphasizes ethical responsibilities, regulatory obligations, and due diligence practices necessary to offer client-centered mutual fund recommendations.

Understand the unique needs of retired individuals, the resources available to meet those needs, and planning techniques available to clients at various stages of life. This course considers life insurance, annuities, health insurance, and long-term care, and covers critical market conduct issues.

This course introduces agents and representatives to the concept of money laundering, reviews the history of anti-money laundering legislation and focuses on the importance of suspicious activities and Suspicious Activities Reports (SARs). Realizing that agents and representatives are on the front lines dealing directly with customers, the course specifically focuses on the "red flag" behavior of customers that indicates unusual behavior and that may indicate suspicious activities.

Learn how annuities can satisfy client investment goals. This course discusses the features of annuities and where they belong within the range of retirement saving and distribution options that are available to clients. The course also links annuity features to the sales process.

Learn the fundamentals of individual annuity contracts. This course covers variable annuities in depth, distinguishing them from fixed annuities and discussing variations such as single and periodic premium, immediate and deferred annuities. How annuities are used and tax rules are also covered.

The idea of annuities goes back to ancient Rome, where its citizens could make an upfront payment in a contract, called an annua, in exchange for steady payments for life or for a certain time period. Today, annuities have grown more diverse, and thus more complicated, with different types of annuities each offering different types of guarantees and savings features, subject to the claims-paying ability of the insurer. Those bells and whistles can make annuities hard for investors to comprehend. And, they can make annuities expensive to purchase. This course reviews the basics of annuities with a focus on deferred variable annuities and the FINRA regulations pertaining to those annuities.

This course discusses the anti-money laundering laws; starting with the original Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and continuing through the various legislative changes that have impacted, clarified, and strengthened the BSA. As an insurance professional you have a significant role in reducing money laundering. It is important for you to recognize money laundering red flags. This course will inform and empower you to be aware and prepared if you encounter suspicious activity.

Money laundering occurs when funds from illicit activities are made to look like legitimate funds. The process attempts to disguise the financial assets so they can be used without detecting the illegal activities that produced them. Money laundering has devastating social consequences. The tainted funds are used to finance a wide range of illegal activities, such as narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling, financial frauds, trafficking human beings, and financing terrorism. This course, Anti-Money Laundering: Applying the Rules, will provide you with a clear understanding of the various techniques by which money laundering occurs; the laws, rules, and regulations regarding money laundering; unusual and suspicious activities that may indicate money laundering activities; the scope and importance of AML programs; and the individual agent's and representative's responsibilities in preventing money laundering.

This course provides students with knowledge and understanding of the threats and problems created by money laundering and how money launderers operate—including their techniques. Students will learn the laws, rules, and regulations that have been put in place to combat the problems. They will also learn their role in identifying signs that money laundering is taking place and their responsibilities once they have recognized unusual and suspicious activities.