Resources

Resources

Advocis understands the need for advisors to have advanced knowledge in order to provide competent advice for complex client issues.

Our Resources are designed to offer you this additional support towards niche areas.

Risk Management

Advocis National - Risk Management Webinar Series: Building a Protected Practice

Jack Mazakian, VP, Advocis Broker Services talks about building and sustaining a practice that is compliant with legislation, communicating well with clients, legislation for financial advisors such as PIPEDA, CASL and CRM-2 and the penalties when rules are breached.

Advocis National - Risk Management Webinar Series: Cyber & Privacy Liability

Jack Mazakian, VP, Advocis Broker Services discusses the key regulatory and legislative requirements related to the collection and storage of personal information, rules for communicating with the public and penalties when breached, and how to protect yourself and your client information.

Advocis National - Risk Management Webinar Series: From Bad to Worse

Jack Mazakian, VP, Advocis Broker Services discusses the early warning signs of a claim, the claims management process, and the team that can support you during a claim to avoid making a mistake.

Advocis National - Risk Management Webinar Series: The Value of E&O Insurance

Jack Mazakian, VP, Advocis Broker Services shares how you can protect yourself, and your business, and the important terms and concepts related to E&O insurance. He also dives into which protection services are included in a policy and potential sources of claims.

Ellen Bessner - Best kept secret about KYC

Ellen Bessner offers a reminder that Advisors often ignore this important know-your-client item to their detriment.

Ellen Bessner - Don't let client preferences come before your legal obligations

Ellen Bessner offers a reminder to advisors that, despite the pandemic, complying with regulatory and legal obligations must always come first.

Practice Management

Advisor Tech and Tools

STEP Digital Assets SIG - Inventory for Digital Assets and Digital Devices

Developed by the STEP Digital Assets Special Interest Group, this document is designed to assist with creating an inventory for digital accounts associated with underlying assets (e.g. physical assets and/or property rights accessed online).

Sun Life - Video Marketing Section of Advisor Best Practices

Learn to create compelling marketing videos that can give you a competitive edge and highlight your greatest marketing asset – you.

Client Conversations

Client Finance Fundamentals Guide

Financial Advisors and Planners can order a word copy of this guide to provide to their clients and customize with their own information from Advisor Research Group Ask for your discount as an Advocis member.

Charitable Donations of Life Insurance - Guidelines for Canadian Advisors

This set of documents has been designed to assist donors, charities, insurance advisors and life insurers with the donation of life insurance policies to Canadian charities. Please note that this edition contains guidelines for an advisor audience.

Charitable Donations of Life Insurance - Guidelines for Canadian Donors

This set of documents has been designed to assist donors, charities, insurance advisors and life insurers with the donation of life insurance policies to Canadian charities. Please note that this edition contains guidelines for a donor audience.

Donor Attraction Strategies for 2021

Betty-Anne Howard offers thoughts on how financial advisors can work more effectively with clients around planned giving to help them understand how it can provide the impact and the ROI they desire.

Are Gen X and Y overconfident about reaching financial goals?

James Langton writes about how purchasing a home, funding higher education and saving for retirement will prove challenging for both generations

Help your clients make better decisions

A helpful article by Susan Silma on how behavioural economics provides a framework for advisors to help direct clients to make decisions consistent with their long-term goals.

Influence, Affluence & Opportunity

Donor-advised Funds in Canada

Diversification

This animated video on diversification provided by HeyAdvisor explains why it’s important for your clients not to “put all their eggs in one basket”.

Life Insurance

This animated video provided by HeyAdvisor helps your clients understand the benefits of life insurance and outlines the difference between term and permanent insurance.