From September through May, our Chapter offers educational programs to build a planner's understanding of current and relevant issues. First time attendee? Email us to attend any monthly meeting (except CFP Ethics) at no charge. Our meetings are all in-person.
2024-2025 FPA-NENY Calendar of Events
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Whether you do comprehensive financial planning or specialize in just one facet of it, there are so many topic areas that require a depth of knowledge.
The broader the scope of your knowledge, the more value you bring to the client relationship.
Because financial planning is about the client’s entire financial life, it is so important to be aware of how little details fit into the big picture. The key is recognizing the issues and being able to provide solutions, whether you do so yourself or turn them to someone who handles that area.
You have found your place for solutions at the FPA-NENY!
Each month, we bring in an expert speaker to present on a current topic. Our programs are both engaging and informative.
Our venue is Wolferts Roost Country Club, and we are live and in-person - you can network with like minds while enjoying a darn fine breakfast.
Registration and breakfast begin at 7:30am, with programming beginning at 7:50am. The majority of our meetings get you out and on to your day by 9:00am - that's a great way to start your day!
For members, we offer a discount package for Season Passes which is a ticket to each monthly meeting at a $50 savings if the tickets were purchased separately. Go even bigger and get the Combo which adds a symposium ticket to the Season Pass deal. Try us once and you'll be hooked.
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Season Pass and Combo are available to FPA members ONLY.
Season Pass - one ticket to each of our 7 monthly meetings:
Combo - a Season Pass + one ticket to our May 1, 2025 all-day Symposium:
September 19, 2024 Thursday
2 hours
CE: 2 hour CFP ethics
ETHICS CE: CFP BOARD’S REVISED CODE AND STANDARDS
Speaker: Dan Candura, CFP BOARD EMERITUS, founder, Candura Group LLC
We are thrilled to have Dan Candura present CFP Ethics live and in-person! Though we don’t quite know how he does it, Dan makes this biennial CFP requirement actually enjoyable. Dan uses interactive questions participants answer via cell phone while throwing in humor and interesting side comments. It’s a great way for CFPs to fulfill the requirement while enjoying the process. This is a huge draw for CFPs near and far, so be sure to attend!
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the structure and content of the revised Code and Standards, including significant changes from prior rules.
- Describe CFP Board’s Fiduciary Duty.
- Identify Material Conflicts of Interest and how to avoid, or fully disclose, obtain informed consent, and manage them.
- Understand the duty to report to the CFP Board and the duty to cooperate.
- Identify the practice standards when providing financial advice that requires financial planning.
- Understand the duty to provide information to clients when providing financial planning and/or financial advice.
- Find out what Medicare may cost your clients and how they can avoid penalties.
- Learn about resources available to you and your clients to find the right fit.
Members: $50 | Non-members $75
Time: 7:30 A.M. Reg/Breakfast | 7:45 – 9:40 A.M. Program
Venue: Wolferts Roost Country Club
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October 17, 2024 Thursday
1.5 hours
Expected CE: 1.5 hours CFP, CPA, and self-reporting designations
ADVISING A FAMILY AFTER THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE: TAX & FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Speaker: Martin S. Finn, JD, LL.M., CPA/PFS, Senior Counsel, Rowlands, LeBrou & Greismer, PLLC
A death of a loved one is an upheaval in anyone’s life. Learn how to help guide your clients through the intricacies of what happens next. From the steps to be taken immediately after death through initial financial matters to estate administration to tax filing responsibilities to survivor estate planning and longer term financial planning, you can assist your clients during this emotional time. Understanding this process will help you create the framework for clients who have not yet prepared, but should.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to help your clients navigate the tax and financial considerations after the death of a loved one.
- Help your clients to determine what financial decisions need to be made immediately, in the short term, and in the long term.
- Understand how to build a process for your clients to plan and use for when the time comes.
Members: $35 | Non-members $55
Time: 7:30 A.M. Reg/Breakfast | 7:45 – 9:15 A.M. Program
Venue: Wolferts Roost Country Club
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November 21, 2024, THURSDAY
1 Hour
Expected CE: 1 hour CFP, CPA, and self-reporting designations
NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL ASSET LANDSCAPE
Speaker: Juan Leon, ChFA Senior Research Analyst, Bitwise Asset Management
Bitwise Asset Management, a dedicated digital and crypto asset specialist, will discuss the major events that occurred in 2024, including the SEC approval of both the Bitcoin and Ethereum spot EFTs, regulatory developments, and increased adoption by both retail and institutional investors. Juan will share our 2025 predictions and highlight the various entry points to gain exposure to the best performing asset class over the past decade.
Members: $35 | Non-members $55
Time: 7:30 A.M. Reg/Breakfast | 7:45 – 9:00 A.M. Program
Venue: Wolferts Roost Country Club
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December 12, 2024, Thursday
1 Hour
Expected CE: 1 hour CFP, CPA, and self-reporting designations
ROADMAP TO A TRANSACTION
Speaker: Brian Goodhart of Capstone Strategic
- Understand the many different reasons business owners choose to sell
- Learn the keys to a good transaction.
- The how and why of putting together a good transaction team
Members: $35 | Non-members $55
Time: 7:30 A.M. Reg/Breakfast | 7:45 – 9:00 A.M. Program
Venue: Wolferts Roost Country Club
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January 16, 2025, Thursday
1 Hour
Expected CE: 1 hour CFP, CPA, and self-reporting designations
WHAT’S AHEAD: AN OUTLOOK FOR 2025+
Speaker: Michael Dembro Lead Strategist Investment Solutions, MFS
Join us for our first program in 2025! Michael shares insight into the economy – where it has been, where it is, and the likely direction for 2025 – and onward. What’s new given the political – domestic and foreign – landscape?
Members: $35 | Non-members $55
Time: 7:45 – 9:00 A.M. Program
Venue: Wolferts Roost Country Club
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February 13, 2025, Thursday
1 Hour
Expected CE: 1 hour CFP, CPA, and self-reporting designations
ESTATE PLANNING UPDATE
Speaker: Lou Pierro, Esq., Founder and Principal of Pierro, Connor, and Strauss, LLC
Estate Planning is not a static matter, especially with changes in the law. Be sure that you are able to provide your clients with accurate information about the health and safety of their estate. Lou will discuss the recent past history of estate planning and highlight the changes that have happened and those that might take effect given the current political climate.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand where estate planning is and how it evolved.
- Learn the what and why your clients need to protect their estate.
- Learn how to navigate the current estate planning practices and prepare for what is next.
Members: $35 | Non-members $55
Time: 7:30 A.M. Reg/Breakfast | 7:45 – 9:00 A.M. Program
Venue: Wolferts Roost Country Club
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March 20, 2025, Thursday
1 Hour
Expected CE: 1 hour CFP, CPA, and self-reporting designations
FOUNDATION FOR GROWTH
Speaker: Kevin Bishopp, VP, First Trust
In Foundation for Growth, we examine key strategies employed by top-tier financial professionals and teams to foster remarkable growth. This presentation is a deep dive into the four pivotal growth strategies that distinguish these high-performers in a complex and dynamic financial landscape. We explore how they excel in managing their capacity, ensuring it’s strategically allocated for maximum impact. we highlight their unwavering emphasis on providing a unique and superior experience to the high-value clients and prospects. We examine the art of articulating value – clear, concise, and consistent – which serves as the bedrock for scalable, sustainable growth. The culmination of theses core strategies is a robust foundation that propels financial professionals into the realm of exceptional performance and endemic growth.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to objectively evaluate capacity – the number of relationships that can effectively be managed by a team.
- Provide a framework to strategically match your resources (time and talents) with the value of client relationships.
- Better understand why the client experience is the final frontier of differentiation in financial service.
- Learn how to sidestep the common mistakes that most financial advisors/teams are making with branding strategies.
Members: $35 | Non-members $55
Time: 7:30 A.M. Reg/Breakfast | 7:45 – 9:00 A.M. Program
Venue: Wolferts Roost Country Club
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May 1, 2025
♥ Our event will be IN PERSON! ♥
Course line-up is subject to change
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2025 FPA NENY 24th Annual Symposium
Course Descriptions and Learning Objectives
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Presented by Tom Rocco of Invesco
It’s not the client’s you win, it’s the clients you keep. Losing a top client is never a pleasurable experience. Research shows that 72% of financial professionals lose one top client per year. Find out how breaking one bad habit and making another can help financial professionals maintain client relationships for their career. The Golden Hour model aims to deliver maximum benefit at a truly implementable level.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn why clients stay and why they leave.
- What is organic client growth and how to achieve it.
- Retaining your clients for life.
CE pending
Presented by Max McQuiston of Capital Group
Our Benchmark Study surveyed more than 1500 advisors to identify the behaviors and skills that helped drive outsized growth at select practices. The study affirms key findings advisors can focus on as they seek to grow. Together we’ll learn about the survey findings and identify potential areas of optimization for your practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Client acquisition behaviors associated with high growth practices.
- Value-added client service strategies.
- Techniques high-growth practices use to create efficiency and scale.
- Share resources that can help you build skills you can immediately apply to your practice.
CE pending
Presented by Lauren Roberts, Claims Technical Expert, Social Security Administration
This presentation provides an overview of the various programs that Social Security offers, and it’s more than just retirement. Social Security provides a safety net of financial protection for your whole family. We’re here to help you throughout life’s journey, including retirement, disability, survivors’, and other benefits. Social Security is here to help you and your clients secure today and tomorrow.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to compare and cover the different types of benefits Social Security offers, including retirement, spousal, survivor, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Medicare.
- Understanding online services and how to access them. Develop scam awareness and how to be proactive in protecting social security information.
- Learn what’s new in 2025.
CE pending
Presented by Trevor Bushhouse of First Trust
Our mission is to deliver a 360 degree view of each client’s financial needs through the 5-D process:
- Discovery: understanding a client’s financial situation and goals, ensuring that strategies is rooted in real needs and capabilities.
- Design: based upon discovery, tailored strategies that align with the client’s profile are crafted,
- Development: the design strategies are fit to address the complexities of the client’s landscape.
- Deployment: the precise implementation of strategies.
- Destination: Focusing on the ongoing management to guide clients toward their objectives.
This holistic approach focuses on creating efficiencies within our advisors’ businesses, helping expand margins, accelerate growth, fortify risk management, and scale new client transition processes.
Learning Objectives:
Solving the financial planning hurdles of taxes, risk, and income by using:
- Custom Option Overlays
- Direct Indexing
- Premium Directing
CE pending
Presented by Jeffrey Clark of Jackson
Investment accounts can be thought of like a bucket that collects your client’s assets. While the goal of the bucket is often to fill it up, sometimes there is a hole in the bucket that can drain it. Taxes can be thought of as the holes in your client’s investment bucket. These taxes, or holes, can impact multiple aspects of financial planning, including wealth accumulation, estate and trust planning, and wealth transfers. Learning to identify and plug these holes could help your clients retain more of their assets.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the practical differences between marginal and effective tax rates.
- Understanding the concepts of asset allocation to mitigate tax drag in investment accounts.
- Learning about the applicability of annuities in irrevocable trusts.
- Understanding the various options for creating tax controls for beneficiaries.
CE pending.
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Session/Time
Reg/Breakfast at 8:15am
1: 9:00 to 9:50am
2: 10:15 to 11:05am
3: 11:25am to 12:15pm
Lunch 12:15pm – 1:00pm
4: 1:00-1:50pm
5: 2:00 to 2:50pm
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