Certificate Programs

This assessment-based certificate program provides advisors with the knowledge, skills, and capabilities to enhance portfolio-return potential through private market exposure. This course is designed for professionals who wish to learn valuable best practices to implement alternative strategies into their practice.

This program focuses on the specific needs of high-net-worth (HNW) clients and covers five core areas: Tax Strategies and Planning, Portfolio Management, Asset Protection and Risk Management, Charitable Giving, and Estate Planning. Each of these areas is examined in conjunction with the needs of HNW clients fitting three different profiles: the executive, the closely held business owner and the retirement client.

Due to ongoing uncertainty in various political, regulatory, and economic environments, affluent individuals and families across the world are turning their attention to diversification not only through investment migration but also through where they purposefully choose to live and conduct business in order to protect their lifestyles and preserve wealth for future generations.

Created by expert practitioners, this 15-hour self-paced course puts you in the shoes of an investment management professional working with individual or institutional clients. It provides an actionable, defensible framework for the investment consulting process.

In the investing world, not acting on emotion is paramount. Overconfident investors overestimate their capabilities, eternal optimists underestimate risk, and investors with familiarity bias consistently trade in the securities with which they are familiar - often to the detriment of returns. Applied Behavioral Finance gives advisors the tools to understand and properly navigate their clients' roller coaster of emotions and unspoken biases toward investing, as well as their own.

Due to the rising costs of higher education and all-time high student loan debt levels, individuals and families are relying more than ever on advisors to help them navigate the financial complexities associated with saving for and paying for college. This course is designed for advisors and financial professionals who wish to become more knowledgeable in the areas of education funding, financial aid planning, and student loan advising.

The Endowments & Foundations Consulting online course teaches advanced methods for institutional investment consulting with endowments and foundations clients. Course participants learn the unique dynamics of advising non-profit clients, key principles of successful consulting and investment management, and best practices for maintaining a rewarding relationship. Content for the course is segmented into 7 learning modules. Modular learning includes readings, lectures, case study, sample documents, and supplemental videos.