Approved IAR CE Courses

This course gives financial professionals a data-driven economic update focused on how advisors can use key indicators to guide practice decisions and client strategy. Through a structured review of services strength, housing stability, retail sales resilience, labor-market tightness, the wealth effect, and household debt metrics, the class explains how real-time trends shape consumer behavior and market expectations. The MP4 lesson walks advisors through GDP growth patterns, equity-market breadth, and forward earnings forecasts so they can better interpret signals that influence portfolio construction. Each segment connects economic research to practical planning applications, reinforcing the analytical approach required in today's fiduciary environment. By the end, participants gain a clearer understanding of how to apply economic data to improve decision-making, enhance client communication, and meet modern CE, CPE, and IAR CE standards.

This one-credit course helps IARs, CFP®, CIMA, and CPA financial advice professionals explain the May 2026 economy, markets, and investment strategy clearly to clients. The class connects geopolitical risk, oil prices, recession concerns, PMIs, jobs data, inflation, Fed policy, fiscal spending, earnings, and valuations to everyday advisory conversations. Participants learn how to distinguish durable fundamental signals from headlines so clients receive context rather than emotion-driven analysis. The program emphasizes fiduciary communication, showing advisers how to frame opinions, data, and forecasts without overstating certainty. By the end, professionals can use economic and market evidence to support rebalancing, risk tolerance reviews, retirement spending discussions, and disciplined client decision-making.

Few advantages are as sought after by parents for their children than an education that will enable them to grow professionally and enjoy the benefits such an education can help bestow. The federal government supports and encourages their efforts to provide that education through various programs and income tax incentives.This course will examine the programs, credits, deductions and federal income tax treatment of various items that affect saving for and financing an individual's education. In so doing, it will consider:' Qualified tuition programs;' Coverdell education savings accounts;' The education savings bond program;' Federal tax credits for education;' The federal tax treatment of scholarships, fellowships, grants and tuition reductions; and' Deductions available for student loan interest, tuition and fees.

As a professional, why is it important to study ethics? The answer lies in the moral requirement that we serve our clients not only with the best products and expert knowledge, but in a manner that serves the client, our own interests, and our community at the highest possible level. This course goes beyond typical courses on communications, because it focuses on a comprehensive set of knowledge and skills that will enable professionals to better communicate with senior clients. These recommendations will allow you to serve your senior clients even more ethically. 

This month, we review November blog articles. This quiz includes the following articles: Effective Implementation Of A Backdoor Roth Strategy: Detailed Nuances, IRS Form 8606 (And When It's Even Worth Doing); Anatomy Of An RIA Sale, Merger Or Acquisition: 5 Important Legal & Compliance Steps; and Advice Engagement Tools For A More Dynamic VIP (Visualization, Interaction, and Process) Planning Experience.

Within every financial advisor's practice, certain tasks have always been time-consuming, thereby constraining the efficiency of other essential duties. These include preparing for client meetings, constructing financial planning proposals, and addressing general client inquiries. As these tasks continue to grow rapidly, they become not only a drain on time but also a financial burden. While various technologies have aimed to streamline financial advising processes, from notetaking to managing client compliance, the demands of the profession have persisted. Despite improvements, advisors find themselves increasingly inundated with tasks such as email drafting and blog writing, detracting from their ability to focus on their most important task of all, meeting with clients. Now, with the advent of cutting-edge generative AI, particularly exemplified by ChatGPT, advisors can experience a significant acceleration in efficiency. This webinar aims to showcase practical examples of how ChatGPT can revolutionize advisors' practices, expanding their capabilities and enhancing the efficiencies that ultimately benefit their clients.

Financial advisors who serve the senior market have the responsibility not only to recognize and understand the issue of elder financial abuse, but to advocate for their senior clients with knowledge and skills that can help keep their clients from falling victim to such abuse or exploitation. This course provides an understanding of the nature of elder financial abuse: why it is so prevalent, the factors that contribute to the risk, common perpetrators and common schemes and scams. The course then reviews a number of ways in which advisors can fight to recognize and prevent the abuse to safeguard elders' futures.