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Events

Financial-Planning.com collaborates with coaches, experts and industry-leading companies to present a variety of events on topics relevant to the financial planning community. Our featured events include Web seminars, expert-led discussions, coaching sessions, podcasts and more. Please refer to our Archived Events to view on-demand web seminars and podcasts. For an exhaustive list of industry events, please visit our Industry Event Calendar.

  • Podcast

    Careers in Financial Planning: The New Reality

    "It's amazing how career paths and opportunities have changed—just in the last six years." What does the next generation of planners need to learn about the reality of practice today? In this economic climate, are firms easing up on hiring? A roundtable discussion of career transitions—and opportunities—in a crisis economy.

  • Podcast

    Ed Slott on Managing through the Market Meltdown

    Now more than ever, your clients are looking for answers. In this exclusive podcast, America's IRA Expert Ed Slott discusses how to manage clients through the Wall Street crisis.

  • Coaching Session

    7 Mistakes Advisors Make in the First Client Meeting

    October 14, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

    AdvisorMax coach Katherine Vessenes presents a 60-minute web seminar that will teach you what NOT to do in your initial meeting with a prospect.

  • Conference

    Women Advisor Forums

    October 15, 2008 10:49 AM - 10:50 AM EDT

    This forum provides both a networking opportunity and an educational venue for high-ranking women advisors to gather, plan and discuss the profession and their ever-growing influence.

  • Conference

    Wealth Management & Retirement Planning Forum

    October 19, 2008 - October 21, 2008

    This conference provides a forum for the bank investment industry to meet and discuss how to get the bank's wealth and advisory business retirement-ready.

  • Coaching Session

    The 90-Day Dazzle

    October 30, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

    Begin to plant the seeds and reap the harvest of an unending stream of new client referrals in just 90 Days with the industry's most complete new client marketing sequence.

  • Conference

    Financial Behavior in Retirement: Understanding Retirees, Income, Asset Protection & Healthcare

    November 12, 2008 - November 14, 2008

    This conference will examine what we know about the way retirees make financial decisions, how advisors can be most effective in working with them, and what unmet needs the financial services industry should be looking to fill.

  • Podcast

    Trusts: The Next Big Thing

    As affluent Boomers age, trust services are essential in helping to manage client assets and ensure the transfer of wealth. Are you ready to present yourself as an experienced trust advisor?

  • Podcast

    Meeting Your Clients' Healthcare Needs

    Is it possible to be a good planner today without addressing your clients' healthcare issues?

  • Sponsored Podcast

    Wealth Preservation in Retirement

     In this podcast, seasoned financial planners Karen C. Altfest, PhD, CFP, and Barbara Culver, CFP, CLU, ChFC, AEP, give us their take on how planners can help their female clients retire more securely and comfortably, including a discussion of what specialized services planners need to offer to their women clients.

  • Sponsored Podcast

    Financially Supporting Loved Ones

    Due to delayed parenthood, increased life expectancy, and the need to care for aging parents, nearly 10 million boomers are raising children and at the same time providing financial assistance to an aging parent.

  • Sponsored Podcast

    The New Parent

    New parents need to plan for myriad financial adjustments. This podcast examines how advisors can help their new parent clients answer essential questions.

  • Podcast

    Avoiding Arbitration

    FINRA lists the top reason for bringing an arbitration case against a rep as breach of fiduciary duty. While many actions that can get a broker in hot water are obviously avoided, others are not so clear. This podcast brings together an expert panel to discuss how brokers and reps can keep a clean record.

  • Podcast

    New Frontiers for ETFs

    As dramatic an entrance as ETFs have made on the investing scene, the industry is still innovating at a fast pace. New products looking to capitalize on almost every niche in the investing world are coming out almost daily. And ETFs are gaining a toehold in the highly lucrative 401(k) market. Our panel of experts discusses the rapidly evolving landscape of ETFs in this new podcast.

  • Podcast

    Debating the Rand Report

    Thomas Orecchio of NAPFA, Duane Thompson of the FPA, Michael Udoff of SIFMA discuss the Rand Report findings with On Wall Street's Fran McMorris.

Archived Events

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    Having the Long-Term Care Conversation

    September 24, 2008 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

    Long-term care is an immensely valuable form of insurance, both for clients and their beneficiaries. This informative web seminar will discuss strategies for tackling the difficult yet crucial LTCi conversation with clients.

  • Conference

    The Life Settlement Conference

    September 23, 2008 - September 25, 2008

    The Life Settlements Conference is the largest independent event for those involved in the secondary life market.

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    Transitioning Your Practice

    September 9, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT

    While the transition process is challenging, proper planning and execution, backed by the full support of an established firm, can ease the risk associated with transitioning and help ensure a successful move.

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    Wealth Management in a Weak Economy: Staying the Course

    September 3, 2008 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

    Clients might have retired, or planned to retire, based on certain return assumptions. But a weak economy could derail the best laid plans. How can a wealth advisor help these struggling clients?

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    Wealth Management in a Weak Economy: Tactical Asset Allocation

    August 13, 2008 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

    Learn about new asset classes to consider, methods of protecting a portfolio, where protected asset classes make sense—and when safeguards are too costly.

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    Wealth Management in a Weak Economy: A Web Seminar Series

    July 23, 2008 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

    This timely session examines specific trend-chasing behaviors and offers tips on how and when to address them.

  • Conference

    Women Advisor Forums

    July 10, 2008 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT

    Right now women are now reaching the upper echelons of management and becoming superstars in their own right. This forum provides both a networking opportunity and an educational venue for high-ranking women advisors to gather, plan and discuss the profession and their ever-growing influence.

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    Welcome to the Next Generation Financial Advisor Desktop

    March 11, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

    Now you can have next generation technology that can really help you to impress your customers. Hear how you don't have to invest in Hardware or Software and can start working on-demand right away. With only one desktop you can find all the information you need to expand your book of business.

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    Growing Your Practice as an Independent Financial Advisor

    February 6, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

    The third installment in our Web seminar series on Freedom and Control: The TRUTH About Going Independent will outline a number of strategies available only to independent financial advisors that will help create real growth in your practice.

  • Sponsored Web Seminar

    The Economics of Independence

    December 4, 2007 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

    In The Economics of Independence - the second in our series of Web seminars on Freedom and Control - The TRUTH about Going Independent - Philip Palaveev of Moss Adams, LLP discussed a number of the key financial benefits of going independent.

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