Approved IAR CE Courses

Rollovers account for the largest source of contributions to IRAs. Ensuring that consumers receive accurate, and unbiased information regarding their distribution and rollover options is critically important to making informed decisions. This course covers IRA rollover rules, helping financial professionals guide clients in managing retirement assets effectively and avoiding unintended taxes and penalties.

A practical Products & Practice course on retirement-account structures, rollovers, transfers, employer-plan considerations, distribution planning, beneficiary issues, and tax-sensitive strategy selection for investment adviser representatives.

In this continuing education session, learners will review 2 Nerd Eye's View blog articles: Using Subtrusts To Allow Stretch IRA Treatment For Trusts With Multiple Beneficiaries and Motivating Clients Of All Ages And Life Stages To Stop Delaying Estate Planning. In the first article, Ben Henry-Moreland explains the practical implications of naming a trust a beneficiary of a retirement account and how the Final RMD Regulations have altered the distribution schedule rules for trust beneficiaries. In the second article, In this article, David Haughton, JD, CPWA' explains why clients may be delaying estate planning and ways that clients can help them move forward with a combination of regular communication about the topic, building a basic estate planning foundation, and utilizing the right tools and partners.

The objective of this 1-hour seminar is to provide attendees with advanced training on IRA Rollovers. The goal of this seminar is to teach the following topics: the IRA Rollover market, the regulatory landscape, reasons to roll over or not to roll over, methods of tax free transfers, Roth conversions, and beneficiary designations. Attendees will be given specific advanced knowledge that will allow them to better serve their clients and prospective clients regarding IRA Rollovers. This seminar will help add value to the attendees' overall perspective of how IRAs work.

More and more clients are enrolling in Medicare—and more and more are being blindsided by significantly higher Medicare premiums. In reality, the culprit is often IRMAA (Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount)—a little-understood Medicare surcharge that can dramatically increase Part B and Part D premiums for higher-income retirees.

Join nationally recognized CPA and tax expert Larry Pon as he helps financial planners understand one of the most overlooked retirement planning challenges. Larry will explain how IRMAA is calculated, the income events that can trigger premium increases, and the planning opportunities advisors can use to help clients avoid costly surprises.

You’ll also learn when an IRMAA determination can be challenged, how to properly complete Form SSA-44, and which life-changing events may qualify clients for a reduction in their Medicare premiums.

The irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) is one of the most widely used estate planning tools. Those who work in the estate planning field-or any professional who wants to extend his or her practice into this arena-should become knowledgeable about ILITs, and how and why they are used. The purpose of this course is to provide a general understanding of trusts and how they work, with a specific focus on irrevocable life insurance trusts. Along with an exploration of ILITs, the course explains collateral issues that might arise in their creation and operation including a number of important tax-related issues.

For over 20 years, the Internal Revenue Service has made a spring announcement of its Dirty Dozen list of scams and schemes. This course reviews the items on the 2025 Dirty Dozen list, explaining the nature of these schemes and their impact on taxpayers and tax professionals. You will see that the IRS is focused on fraud associated with certain highly promoted activities (CRATs, foreign treaties, captive insurance companies, and monetized installment sales), consumer-related fraud, and activities typically engaged in by high-net-worth individuals. 

This course examines how today's market structure has evolved, what that means for portfolio construction, and how investment adviser representatives can better evaluate diversification and portfolio risk. Our goal is to provide practical insights that they can apply in your own practice.

Clients often want to pay less tax, but effective tax planning rarely comes from focusing on a single-year tax bill. It requires advisors to understand how current decisions interact with future income, retirement distributions, charitable goals, estate transfers, and the client's broader financial plan.

In this live fireside chat, Jeffrey Levine will give investment adviser representatives and financial planners a practical framework for evaluating tax-planning opportunities across the client lifecycle. Attendees will examine how marginal rates, effective rates, adjusted gross income, and taxable income affect recommendations; how the timing of income, deductions, retirement contributions, Roth conversions, distributions, and asset transfers can influence lifetime tax outcomes; and how retirement and estate-planning decisions can create or eliminate planning opportunities.

The session will also address how advisors can communicate tax-planning observations, coordinate with tax and legal professionals, and use technology to analyze client scenarios without treating software output as a substitute for professional judgment. Through practical examples and guided engagement, attendees will leave better prepared to identify tax-planning considerations, evaluate tradeoffs, and integrate tax awareness into client recommendations.