Self Study

This IAR CE-eligible ethics program led by RIA attorney Richard Chen explores the regulatory, ethical, and supervisory risks of using AI in advisory practices, emphasizing advisors’ responsibility to ensure compliance, protect client data, and apply human judgment when leveraging AI tools.

This program examines modern retirement planning strategies by challenging traditional “Probability of Success” approaches to retirement spending and exploring tax-efficient retirement income strategies, including Roth conversions, Social Security claiming, Medicare IRMAA considerations, and coordinated income planning.

This session explains the proposed IRS regulations for Trump Accounts under IRC §530A, helping advisors understand account structure, eligibility requirements, contribution rules—including the $1,000 pilot program—and the planning implications of this new savings vehicle.

This program with CPA Bob Keebler explores how recent tax law changes impact Roth IRA conversions, highlighting key risks, planning strategies, and opportunities to minimize taxes and optimize retirement outcomes in today’s evolving legislative environment.

This session features Kurt Czarnowski and Derek Tharp examining current Social Security rules and challenging conventional claiming strategies, showing how real-world risks and personalized factors may support earlier, more tailored claiming decisions for retirees.

This premium webinar explored advanced planning issues surrounding private company equity, including 409A valuations, early exercise and 83(b) elections, double-trigger RSUs, QSBS eligibility, and tender offer liquidity events.

This premium webinar focused on the tax reporting mechanics, cost-basis errors, and timing pitfalls that create the most expensive equity compensation mistakes.

This premium session provided a practical deep dive into RSUs, NQSOs, and ISOs, explaining how each is taxed, how exercise strategies impact cash flow and risk, and how advisors can help clients manage equity compensation decisions around timing, AMT, liquidity, and long-term planning.