Course Category

Wealth Management - Online

This curriculum covers diversification, tax issues, duration, risk tolerance, market timing, estate planning and dollar cost averaging - investment vehicles and concepts that lie at the heart of developing an investor profile and implementing successful wealth management strategies. It concludes with a case study integrating several issues common to wealth management that shows the banker/investment advisor how to apply these techniques to real-world situations.

Please note that this is a curriculum of individual course modules. You will need to pass each module exam in order to qualify for a certificate of completion.

This is an asynchronous eLearning program that can be accessed 24/7 from any internet enabled computer.

• Determine your client's time horizon
• Identify your client's level of risk or risk tolerance
• Understand the impact of your client's tax rates on investment decisions
• Construct an appropriate investment approach utilizing your client's time horizon, risk tolerance and tax
• Define duration to determine the validity of an investment strategy
• Understand the factors that immunize a portfolio
• Understand how to mix duration to meet clients' investment objectives
• Assess the risks associated with duration
• Differentiate between systematic and unsystematic risk
• Understand the basics and application of portfolio theory
• Understand how to diversify among asset classes in a portfolio.
• Allocate a client's assets among the appropriate assets.
• Implement asset allocation decisions for a portfolio.
• Assist clients to minimize estate and income taxes Analyze the needs and interests of a sample client.
• Apply the investment principles of wealth management in order to provide sound investment advice to a client.
• Determine the best investment strategy for the sample client.