NEW REMOTE COURSE!

If you can't make it to the course, now you can take the course right on your computer. You will get the same pre-course study materials. Now you have the option to attend the 3 day LIVE portion of the course or take the REMOTE section and you will be able see and hear it all on DVD. You will then be given a 100 question test to complete (not required for the live course). Once completed and passed, you will be eligible to apply for the CWM™ or CTEP™  designation.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

Chartered Trust and Estate Planner (CTEP™) Designation Course

Chartered Wealth Manager (CWM™) Designation Course

The course surveys the major areas that the wealth manager needs to know and provides the tools and techniques to host a successful client engagement and how to recognize opportunities for clients. The course covers major principles in domestic and international tax, global estate planning, asset management, investments, investment policy statement and concentrated positions, going offshore and cross-border transactions, partnerships and other entities, compliance and anti-money laundering, prenuptial agreements and divorce planning.

Family and Business Succession Planning (CTEP™)

·        Learn a holistic approach to generational wealth transfer planning.

·        Find out why traditional business succession planning models fail.

·        Learn how to understand how and why to include the entire family in the  planning process and capture multiple families as clients.

·        Offer your clients a proven and effective wealth transfer process.

·        Enhance you image as a trusted family advisor.

Wealth Management and Financial Planning for the Wealthy (CWM™)

This topic distinguishes wealth management from traditional financial planning and covers the aspects of wealth management for high net-worth individuals and the major financial planning concepts and underlying laws and regulations related to global wealth planning. It also entails the discussion of suitable asset allocation techniques from an integrated perspective, finance, financial planning aspects, risk tolerance, lifestyle, life cycle, and concentrated positions. The overall goal of this module is to enable the advisor that encounters a complex wealth management engagement, to be able to integrate the advice given by various counselors and advisors to help facilitate an optimal solution and enable the client to make appropriate decisions.

Areas Covered

·         The Virtual Office

·         Record Keeping and Privacy Issues

·         Correspondence

·         The High-Net Worth Financial Plan

·         Portfolio Management, Financial Markets and Risk Management

·         Advanced applications of the classical concepts of portfolio theory

·         Construction of the Investment Policy Statement

·         Asset allocation and concentrated positions

·         Efficient-market theories

·         Performance measurement

·         Hedge funds, options and other investment choices 

·         Concentrated positions and practical diversification possibilities

·         Sample Proposal and Investment Policy Statement

Global Estate Planning and Asset Protection Planning (CTEP™ and CWM™)

Taxation of U.S. citizen residents or domiliciaries

·         Estate taxation  

·         Gift taxation

·         Generation-skipping transfer taxation

Taxation of non-residents and non-domiciliaries

·         Income taxation

·         Estate taxation

·         Gift taxation

·         Conflict of Laws

·         Offshore Asset Protection Trusts

·         Offshore Life Insurance

·         Offshore Trust Cases

·         Penalties Relating to Foreign Trusts

·         Planning For Non-Grantor Trusts

·         Structuring Non-Grantor Trusts

·         Tax Reporting and Compliance

International Anti-Avoidance (CTEP™ and CWM™)

The objective of this module is to give the student an understanding of the fundamental principles that underlie anti avoidance provisions and to acquaint you with the current of state of the law in selected countries.

Tax avoidance is difficult to define. Additionally, interpretation from one tax jurisdiction to another varies and legislation changes from time to time reflecting changes in judicial tolerance. Advisors need to be aware of the current state of the law in the country of residence of the taxpayer and also in the countries that they are using to implement their client’s tax plans.

You will learn about:

·         Tax Planning

·         Shams and Step Transactions

·         General Anti Avoidance Regime

·         Concepts of Substance and Form and Abuse of Law

·         Specific Anti Avoidance Rules

·         Controlled Foreign Corporations

·         Controlled Foreign Companies Regime

·         Transfer Pricing

·         Concepts of Residence and Source

·         Thin Capitalization

·         Advance Pricing Agreements

·         U. S. Tax Treaties, OECD Models, U.N. Models

·         The Use of Double Tax Agreements for Avoidance

Compliance and Anti-money Laundering (CTEP™ and CWM™)

·         Research Guidance On Money Laundering and Compliance

·         Introduction to Money Laundering: Definitions, Stages, Players, Magnitude and Significance

·         Methods, Trends and Typologies of Money Laundering

·         Comparisons of Anti-Money Laundering Regimes, Key Nations and Offshore Financial Center

·         International and Regional Configurations Against Money Laundering

·         Terrorist Financing: Law, Policy, and Strategies

·         The United States Law of Money Laundering and Forfeiture

·         The USA Patriot Act

·         Compliance: Introduction, Reporting and Record-Keeping

·         Advanced Topics in Compliance including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Internal Revenue Code section 6050I, AML statutes, FATF Forty Recommendations

Divorce Planning and Prenuptial Agreements (CTEP™ and CWM™)

With more than fifty percent of first marriages and sixty percent of second marriages ending in divorce in the U.S. (many other countries are not far behind), divorce planning is becoming increasingly more important. This section of the course looks at prenuptial agreements, mediation, equitable distribution and other marital planning techniques in the U.S. and other countries and cultures.

·         Homestead Laws

·         Jurisdiction

·         Adversarial versus non-adversarial proceedings

·         Equitable Distribution

·         Prenuptial Agreements

·         International Planning