Approved IAR CE Courses

This two-credit class self-study was originally delivered as a live 1-credit webinar on August 12, 2026. Delivering the content as a document optimized for CE (DOCE®) doubled its credit value, illustrating how a DOCE® doubles credits earned on live webinars for professionals while providing a deeper learning experience. The 2-credit reading-based self-study class helps IARs, CFP® professionals, and CPA financial advice professionals explain August 2026 economic, market, and investment strategy to clients. The class connects geopolitical and oil risk, real-time economic indicators, household wealth and demographics, liquidity, productivity, market volatility, earnings, valuations, bond yields, Federal Reserve policy, and inflation to practical advisory conversations.

Participants learn to distinguish durable signals from headlines, frame data and forecasts without overstating certainty, and support disciplined portfolio and planning decisions.

Learning Objectives

At this class, you learn to:

Evaluate Geopolitical Market Effects. Distinguish temporary conflict shocks from recession-driven bear markets.

Assess Current Economic Momentum. Combine business surveys, housing, autos, and retail data.

Interpret Employment Supply Constraints. Relate participation, immigration, openings, and payroll growth.

Explain Wealth-Driven Consumer Spending. Assess how accumulated assets support continued household spending.

Differentiate Monetary And Fiscal Liquidity. Contrast quantitative easing with direct fiscal transfers.

Apply Historical Equity Context. Use compounding and logarithmic charts to interpret returns.

Evaluate Earnings-Supported Valuations. Compare forward multiples with projected earnings growth.

Analyze Federal Reserve Positioning. Connect growth, inflation forecasts, rates, and yield curve.

Plan For Fiscal Adjustments. Incorporate debt, entitlements, and potential payroll-tax increases.

Communicate Market Uncertainty. Balance durable growth expectations with unforeseen economic shocks.

Fritz Meyer’s September examines growth, jobs, household finances, inflation, earnings, Treasury yields, investment returns, and fiscal funding alternatives. New additions in this September 15 webinar include Fritz's comments on AI investment risks, two new real-wage charts, a five-percent Treasury yield discussion, and specific tax proposals to dig out of the $40 trillion long term federal debt. Participants learn to evaluate changing evidence and communicate forecasts without overstating certainty.

This course, "5 Slides To Show Retirees Amid Heightened Fears" provides financial professionals with a data-driven approach to guiding retirees through investment decisions using historical market performance. By the end of this class, professionals are equipped with evidence-based strategies to help retirees maintain financial security and confidence in their portfolios. It explores the impact of different asset allocations (40/60, 60/40, and 80/20) on long-term returns, sequence of returns risk, and portfolio sustainability. Participants learn how persistence and emotional durability influence investment success, why controlling costs is critical, and how to stress-test future market conditions for clients. The course emphasizes key insights such as the importance of diversification, the historical resilience of balanced portfolios, and the effectiveness of structured withdrawal strategies.

This CE course equips financial advisors with practical strategies to apply AI and automation tools in their practices responsible. AI is a new technology, and this class maps a path for IARs to implement AI ethically and responsibly. The class is geared to educating practitioners to use artificial intelligence (AI) to engage clients and prospects in the financial planning process. You are shown ways how to streamline workflows, tighten compliance on client communications and recordkeeping, and boost client engagement through smarter content creation. The program also covers advanced marketing tactics, including SEO and GEO (Generative AI Engine Optimization), to boost rankings in AI-powered search results. Real-world demonstrations include using ChatGPT for newsletters, social posts, and personalized follow-ups.

Financial professionals often cite 'fit' as the most important factor in maintaining long-term client relationships, but few take the time to formally assess investor personality. This course addresses that gap using the well-established NEO Five-Factor Model, a framework used by psychologists, HR professionals, and educators to predict behavior. Advisors who understand investor personality can guide clients with greater empathy, tailor communication more effectively, and reduce emotional decision-making triggers that lead to suboptimal outcomes.Unlike courses that touch lightly on risk tolerance or investor profiling, this class delivers a structured, scientifically grounded approach to personality assessment. It's designed for CFPs, CPAs, IARs, CIMAs, and other CE-seeking professionals who want to incorporate behavioral insights directly into planning workflows. You'll learn to recognize how key personality traits'such as conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness'manifest in investor behavior and what those traits mean for long-term portfolio guidance.

Cass Sunstein is a giant in behavioral finance and perhaps its most influential figure in translating behavioral insights into practical frameworks for individual decision-making, public policy and institutional design. Frank Murtha, Ph.D., examines Sunstein’s contribution through Nudge, coauthored with Richard H. Thaler. The class focuses on choice architecture, defaults, framing, commitment devices, social influence and clearer comparisons in financial counseling, while preserving informed client choice. The Price of Happiness may be referenced briefly for context. The live webinar is October 27, 2026, 4–5 p.m. Eastern, with 55 minutes of planned instruction.

This 9750-word document optimized for continuing education (DOCE®) analyzes the SEC proposal for semiannual reporting, giving perspective to investment fiduciaries. It explains how Form 10-S could change public-company disclosure cadence. Learners review comment-file findings, including 479 opposing letters and 10 supportive letters. The class connects the rulemaking to fiduciary monitoring by portfolio managers and investment advisers to retail and institutional investors as well as retail investors, and members of investment clubs. The proposal would create information gaps that heighten investment risk and increase opacity of public companies, making its potential adoption an urgent and important topic for fiduciaries to alert clients about. It gives fiduciaries practical tools for client conversations, committee discussions, community outreach and fiduciary advocacy.

Crypto Investing Risks; Best Ethics IAR CE In 2026 examines how cryptocurrency products and tokenized investments create new risks that advisers must carefully consider in a rapidly changing regulatory environment.

Tyler Gellasch, who wrote key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as former Counsel in the Senate, explains how weaker oversight, regulatory loopholes, and shifting jurisdiction between regulators are likely to reduce protections clients expect.

You learn how and when recommending tokenized securities, stablecoins, or crypto-related derivatives may conflict with your duty to act in a client’s best interest.

To be clear, none of the protections of public securities come with crypto investments. Explaining the difference in risks of crypto versus securities investments is only one key takeaway from this class. However, making sure clients understand they are not buying securities regulated by FINRA, the SEC and states is almost incidental to the main goal of the class.

You also learn about the crypto industry's $200 million PAC aimed at federally preempting states from regulating crypto. Also discussed is the cancellation of a Senate banking committee meeting after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pulled his support of a bipartisan compromise the night before the Committee was scheduled to meet.