When Diversification Fails
From the Investments & Wealth Monitor

🔒The Evolving Needs of Affluent and Aging Client Sets
From Investments & Wealth Research

Will China’s Ban Hurt Cryptocurrencies?
From Knowledge@Wharton, IWI Executive Education Partner

Managing the Client Mandate: Integration of Portfolio Investment Capture to the Investment Policy Statement Process
From the Investments & Wealth Monitor

🔒 Factor Tilts and Asset Allocation
From the Journal of Investment Consulting

Keeping Promises? Investment Objectives and Impact of Carbon Risk Disclosures
Research of Interest

🔒 Limitations of Monte Carlo Analysis
From the Investments & Wealth Monitor

Dynamic Income Planning w/Anders Smith & Jeng Chiu
Exceptional Advisor Podcast

Cognitive Overload: The Coming Surge in Diminished Capacity Cases and What Wealth Management Firms Can Do to Protect Their Clients and Themselves
Research of Interest

Avoid These Five Decision Traps to Improve Your Investing
From the Investments & Wealth Monitor

Who is Right About Inflation?
From Chicago Booth Review, IWI Executive Education Partner

🔒 Trends in Investor Preferences: Gender Considerations and Client Engagement
From Investments & Wealth Research

What’s the Future of the Office?
From Knowledge@Wharton, IWI Executive Education Partner

🔒 Desiree Maldonado: First CPWA^® Certificant In Puerto Rico
From the Investments & Wealth Monitor

Public Concern About Immigration and Customer Complaints Against Minority Financial Advisors
Research of Interest

Webinar: Introduction to Fi360 for IWI Members

Join us for a special event to learn more about how Broadridge Fi360 Solutions can help on your path to fiduciary excellence. You’ll get an understanding of solutions that help you grow your skills and streamline your business – all at a special rate specifically for IWI members.

Webinar: Advanced Advisor Education Workshop: Retirement Income Strategies

2 CE

This workshop is for financial advisors and wealth managers who work with clients approaching or in retirement and will focus more specifically on the decumulation phase of retirement planning. 

Webinar: Focus on Retirement Planning

4 CE

Retirement planning must be a client-centric process and address the unique mindsets retirees face as they transition from accumulation to decumulation. Drawn from the RMA^® curriculum, this event highlights practical frameworks for developing a Household Balance Sheet™ as the center of a financial plan, mitigating retirement risk, and goals-based portfolio construction.

Get a head start on 2022 by investing in yourself with a certification. There are still opportunities to get started in 2021 and to earn your designation in early 2022.

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Come explore our friends and family perks and discounts. As a member of the Institute, we want to bring you access to the best, Ivy League-quality training, development tools, and resources from our extended network. That is why we have curated exclusive membership perks and discounts for you to enjoy. Check out our latest special from Broadridge Fi360 Solutions!

Does your team need an investment management primer to be more effective? The new Investment Management Essentials online course was created just for that purpose. Cultivated by expert practitioners in investment management, this course dives into actionable strategies in investment consulting. Employees in any role will benefit from the foundational knowledge presented through the consulting framework.

An Overview of the CPWA^® Certification

This live 30-minute webinar explores what HNW clients are looking for and how you can help them with the education you'll receive in the CPWA^® certification program. Join Institute Program Director Mike Kurz, CIMA^®, CPWA^®, for this session.

An Overview of the CIMA^® Certification

Gain confidence in your investment strategies and net new business, even during a recession. Join the Institute’s Program Director, Mike Kurz, CIMA^®, CPWA^®, and Nathan Harness, PhD, Professor at Texas A&M University and Massi De Santis, PhD, CFP^®, Financial Planner, as they discuss the CIMA^® certification in this live 30-minute webinar.

An Overview of the RMA^® Certification

To be an exceptional retirement advisor, you must consider not only the changes to a client's income as they approach or are in retirement but also to their mindset. Join the Institute’s Program Director, Mike Kurz, CIMA^®, CPWA^®, as he explores what makes the RMA^® program different and the process to achieve it in this live 30-minute webinar.

Accelerate your career with a CIMA^®, CPWA^®, or RMA^® designation. IWI may provide up to $2,000 in scholarship assistance to those who are from underrepresented communities related to gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual preference, and/or financial need.

IWI members and certificants all come from diverse backgrounds, originating far and wide. The financial industry is constantly evolving, and so are each of you. Learn more about a fellow member, Elizabeth 'Libet' Anderson, and how she's pivoted throughout her career to her current position as president of Concourse Financial Group Securities and Institute board member.