The Investments & Wealth Institute, formerly IMCA, and its management are committed to ensuring that its certification and other activities are undertaken impartially, objectively, and fairly. To this end, the Institute’s policies, procedures, and actions are applied evenly to all persons. The Institute also manages conflicts of interest, and ensures that its activities and decisions are not adversely influenced by irrelevant factors. The Institute further is committed to ensuring that its certification activities are independent of its other activities, and that its decisions at all phases of certification are made without bias or prejudice and based entirely upon the criteria for certification.