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Attention guests Our live events are completed, but it's not too late to attend. You can access the same great learning and eligible CE credits offered by the 2020 CALU Webinar program via our on-demand recordings. Simply register for a bundle or the individual sessions of your choice and view them at www.calu.luma.one. Note: CE credits for our on-demand webinars are not available from La Chambre de la sécurité financière. |
2020 CALU Webinar Program – Guest Pricing
The 2020 CALU Webinar Program offers high-quality content developed specifically for CALU members. Our webinars provide deep dives into advanced planning solutions in life insurance, wealth creation and management, living benefits, employee benefits, and more.
The guest bundle includes the full program of live webinars and recordings. We are applying for CE credits for attending either live or recorded webinars
*Please note, that to obtain La Chambre CE credits for webinars you must attend the live webinar. La Chambre CE credits will not be given for on-demand webinars.
Pricing is as follows:
Guest Webinar Bundle – full webinar program (19 sessions) for $749.00 plus tax
Individual webinars - $125 (1 hr) or $185 (1.5 hrs)
Refer to the tabs below to see summary webinar descriptions or download the webinar descriptions here.
Please note: “Breathing Life Into Your Living Benefits Sales” is not available on demand.
IPPs are receiving a considerable amount of attention given the 2017 tax changes affecting small businesses. The Boomer generation that founded many of Canada’s small businesses are now wanting to ensure that they will have adequate retirement incomes and are seeking tax-effective solutions in this area.
IPPs have also evolved since 1991, and more recent design features will be covered (e.g, hybrid plans). Participants will leave this workshop with an ability to identify the appropriate candidates for an IPP. There will be an overview of the key provisions of the tax rules, followed by case studies illustrating who the ideal candidates are.
Technical Case Study Advanced
Since their inception over 10 years ago, RDSPs have been a great way for Canadians with disabilities to save. Being able to receive up to $90,000 in government grants and receive tax-deferred growth on the grants and contributions is essential to improving the lives of Canadians living with disabilities.
However, RDSPs are not as simple to obtain and manage as many might expect from this underserved market. Co-presented by CALU members for both the technical and practical considerations, this session focuses on how to avoid the pitfalls and maximize the opportunities in obtaining, growing and distributing funds within a RDSP.
Technical Intermediate
The presenters will illustrate the explosive growth in Exchanged Traded Funds (ETF) over the last number of years and explain some of the myths associated with them. With a panel of experts and advisors you will learn how to construct a portfolio using ETFs and how advisors have used them in their practice with their clients.
The advisors will explain when they feel an ETF is appropriate or why they feel it is not appropriate in the client portfolio. You will also learn the dos and don'ts of using an ETF.
Practical Basic
BEworks specializes in Behavioral Economics and has just completed a comprehensive behavioural research project on behalf of CALU on articulating the value of working with an advisor.
This session will feature BEworks CEO Kelly Peters as she shares the findings of our research and how it can be applied to your business.
The session will include an intensive one-hour training session on how to use the research results in your practice.
This session will deliver an eye-opening review of the findings produced by the National Institute of Aging report supporting the immediate need for more consideration of long-term care and living protection. Dr. Sinha will discuss the current provision of long-term care across Canada and place it within the global context of comparable countries.
He will highlight current challenges, present evidence-informed opportunities, and discuss innovation in these growing and important areas of care. We will address opportunities and solutions to use this information in your practice and in living planning, for individuals and small businesses. You will leave this session with an increased appreciation for the importance of planning for living years.
Practical Intermediate
Mark Halpern will explain how he helps clients convert tax dollars to generous charitable gifts using insurance strategies that eliminate or mitigate tax liabilities and enhance final estate values, creating enduring legacies.
Professional advisors and other estate planning professionals are the gatekeepers of client wealth. When it comes to philanthropy, we share a unique obligation and opportunity to help clients and the charitable causes they care about.
Leveraged insurance arrangements can provide significant benefits for your client, but inappropriate application or poor implementation can mean significant extra costs and frustrations.
This session will explore client profiles and product selection that are appropriate and the various issues, such as tax, credit and structure, that must be observed for proper implementation.
Technical Intermediate
Employee Benefits is a vast umbrella that continues to evolve and expand, and growing an EB practice in a mature domestic market can be easier than you think. The domestic Life & Health market grows less than 3%. A business needs organic growth to drive business investment and 3% will not cut it.
This workshop will explore how an adjustment in business focus to include Group Retirement is reshaping all aspects of the EB practice.
Practical Case Study Intermediate
Employee Benefits is a vast umbrella that continues to evolve and expand, and growing an EB practice in a mature domestic market can be easier than you think. The domestic Life & Health market grows less than 3%. A business needs organic growth to drive business investment and 3% will not cut it.
This workshop will explore how an adjustment in business focus to include Group Retirement is reshaping all aspects of the EB practice.
Practical Case Study Intermediate
A fast-paced look at the employee benefits industry changes and outcomes relating to mental health; creative plan design changes; digital health solutions and impact; stop loss insurance; regulatory developments and provincial drug plan changes.
Technical Intermediate
Join Althia Raj of HuffPost Canada, Joel-Denis Bellavance of La Presse and Nik Nanos of Nanos Research to discuss today's hottest topics.
This workshop will review selected insurance planning strategies, such as shared ownership structures and offshore insurance policies, from a tax audit and compliance perspective.
The speakers will focus on tax issues involving shared ownership, including valuations of its various components and other compliance/audit risks, understanding the CRA and its approach to certain life insurance strategies, and on how off-shore insurance has emerged, its suitability and related compliance and audit risk.
Participants will get practical advice on how to manage life insurance strategies from a tax risk viewpoint, with comments about staying within the boundaries of acceptable planning, and what strays beyond the boundaries.
Technical Advanced
Pre-mortem planning is complex, with many technical components. This session will walk participants through the actual implementation of a pre-mortem plan. The intent is to engage in pre-mortem planning to help minimize tax and create clarity of expectations.
We will go through the steps to implement an efficient pre-mortem plan and will review common issues, timelines, potential problems, etc. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of pre-mortem planning and tools and steps to manage timelines, difficult issues, and how to integrate insurance in the planning processes.
Technical Practical Case Study Advanced
Understanding the reality of post-mortem planning will better equip advisors in explaining the benefits of insurance as an integral element in these plans. Through the use of a case situation, participants will be walked through the actual implementation of a post-mortem plan.
Your client dies holding shares of a company ─ the intent is to engage in post-mortem planning to minimize tax implications. The presenters will explore the practical details of just what has to get done in order to execute on a post-mortem plan, and what issues can arise that can present challenges.
Technical Practical Case Study Advanced
The recent economic downturn has significantly impacted the income, wealth and retirement plans of many Canadians. However, amidst the financial gloom there are opportunities for CALU members to provide valued guidance and advice to clients on how to properly position their tax and estate planning affairs for the expected recovery. In this webinar the panelists will discuss several planning strategies using real life examples.
With baby boomer business owners now 55 – 75 years old and COVID-19 creating an uncertain business climate, it is anticipated that business sale transactions will gain additional momentum in the coming few years. Significant changes to the taxation of private corporations are affecting how deals are structured. In this session, the panelists will review various opportunities to integrate life insurance with tax effective business sales.
In this session Angela Ross and Kevin Wark will highlight recent Canada Revenue Agency interpretations, tax cases, legislative proposals and recent tax changes as well as estate planning developments of importance to CALU members and their clients.
In this session designed primarily for Associate members, a panel of tax and estate planning experts will provide their insights relating to recent planning files involving unique and complex issues. Attendees will be invited to ask questions and add their own insights.
Time permitting, attendees will also have the chance to ask questions relating to hypothetical client situations and receive advice from the experts and fellow members. We expect this to be an enlightening, interactive and quite possibly entertaining workshop that should not be missed!
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