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1st Global |
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TSCPA has designed a conference recognizing the need for specific information and training directed toward professionals involved in personal financial planning for clients. The conference will feature speakers known both locally and nationally for their expertise in the personal financial planning industry.
Conference Highlights:
- Research and Portfolio Design, Construction and Management topics
- Increasing Tax Efficiency of Investments
- Moss Adams Survey - Executive Summary Overview
- Asset Allocation and Diversification
- Investment Advice
- Marketing and Business Development
Course Level: Update
TSBA Subject Code: M
CPE Credit: 8 hours
| Registration Fees: |
Oct. 15 |
After Oct. 15 |
| Member Discount Fee |
$245 |
$285 |
| Conference Fee |
$320 |
$360 |
Hotel Information:
A limited block of rooms has been reserved at the Courtyard by Marriott Brentwood at a rate of $89. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800/321-2211. Please reference the TSCPA Personal Financial Planning Conference when making your reservation to ensure you receive the group rate.
Schedule at a Glance
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| 7:30 - 8 a.m. |
Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 8 - 8:05 a.m. |
Opening Remarks |
| 8:05 - 8:55 a.m. |
Basics of ETFs
Jillian DelSignore, CIMA,
Business Development Officer-Principal, Barclays Global
Investors iShares, Chicago, Ill.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are an investment tool for a wide spectrum of investors, both
individual and institutional. They can be used in a variety of investment strategies from the
traditional to the non-traditional. In the "Basics of ETFs" we will discuss the growth of ETFs in
the marketplace and ways to utlilize them as a component of portfolio construction. This is your
chance to learn more about the growth of ETFs and the engine that drives their unique benefits. |
| 8:55 - 9 a.m. |
Change Break |
| 9 - 9:50 a.m. |
Adding Advisement Services to Your
Practice
Vic Butcher, CPA, LUTCF,
Butcher Financial Services,
Cordova, Tenn.
Butcher will discuss the pros and cons to adding investment services to your CPA practice. He
will tell you how to begin, the tests that are required and various compliance issues that you will
need to address when adding investment vehicles to your clients' portfolios.
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| 9:50 - 10:05 a.m. |
Networking Break & Exhibit Viewing |
| 10:05 - 10:55 a.m. |
Building Better Portfolios in Uncertain
Times: Putting Clients on Firm Footing
Session Presented by Goldman
Sachs Asset Management
We are emerging from a time of considerable stress and uncertainty in the financial
markets. How should investors be building their nest eggs for the long run to withstand - and
perhaps capitalize on - the market chaos? We will discuss several practical and surprisingly
straightforward ways of enhancing and diversifying portfolios through a "core and satellite"
investment philosophy.
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| 10:55 - 11 a.m. |
Change Break |
| 11 - 11:50 a.m. |
Positioned for Recovery: Portfolio
Strategies for Today's Market
Michael J. Purifoy, CPA,
CFP, Investment Management
Consultant, RJFS,
Southwestern Investment
Services, Inc., Franklin, Tenn.
From October 2007 to March 2009, the stock markets in the United States plummeted more
than 50 percent from their peak values. In this session we will address how we got into our
current economic situation, and we will also analyze the severe economic downturns of the past
and the recoveries that followed. We will address investors' concerns about how to navigate
a chaotic investment market in order to achieve one's financial goals. Attendees will learn the
clear truth about economic downturns and be equipped to successfully guide themselves and/or
their clients through the next inevitable downturn.
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| 11:50 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 12:20 - 1:10 p.m. |
Increasing the Tax Efficiency of Your
Investments
John M. Smartt, CPA, Owner,
Financial Counseling &
Administration, Knoxville, Tenn.
Minimizing federal and state income taxes can increase the speed at which investments
compound in value, increasing wealth faster. This presentation will include a study by the
Vanguard Group, which quantifies the problem and provides solutions. Real life examples from
professional investment management practice will be provided. The result is an investment
approach which you can implement for yourself, your employees and your investment
management clients.
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| 1:10 - 1:15 p.m. |
Change Break |
| 1:15 - 2:05 p.m. |
Portfolio Construction
Don Bennyhoff, CFA, Senior
Investment Analyst, The
Vanguard Group, Malvern,
Penn.
Most investment portfolios are designed to meet a specific future financial need - either a single
goal or a multifaceted set of objectives. To reach those goals and objectives, a disciplined
method of portfolio construction must be established that balances the potential risks and
returns of various types of investments. This presentation discusses the five major investment
decisions that need to be made, in successive top-down order, in the portfolio construction
process:
| 1. Asset allocation - Choosing asset-class weights: equities, fixed income, cash and so on. |
| 2. Sub-asset allocation - Choosing investments within an asset class, such as U.S. or
international equities; or large-, mid- or small-capitalization equities. |
| 3. Active and/or passive allocations - Choosing indexed and/or actively managed assets. |
| 4. Asset location - Deciding on the placement of investments in taxable and/or tax-advantaged
accounts. |
| 5. Manager selection - Choosing individual managers, funds or securities to fill allocations. |
The top-down order in which these decisions are made is important in establishing a wellconstructed
portfolio, because the asset allocation decision is the most important determinant of
both the return variability and the long-term total return of a broadly diversified portfolio.
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| 2:05 - 2:20 p.m. |
Networking Break & Exhibit Viewing |
| 2:20 - 3:10 p.m. |
Moss Adams Survey
Sal Geraci, MBA, CFP, CPA,
HHM Wealth Advisors LLC,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
The AICPA/Moss Adams CPA Financial Planning Practice Study, released in April, 2008, is
the first joint survey of CPA financial planning and investment advisory practices. This study
addresses performance and other operational characteristics in the CPA/advisory industry and
identifies industry trends and practices of the most successful firms. This session will cover the
key highlights and trends from the Study Report.
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| 3:10 - 3:15 p.m. |
Change Break |
| 3:15 - 4:05 p.m. |
Diversification and Asset Allocation - What
Have We Learned?
William T. Spitz, Principal,
Diversified Trust Company,
Nashville, Tenn.
We are hopefully exiting a traumatic recession and a steep decline in virtually all of the world's
capital markets. What can we learn from this painful period about investment strategy and
portfolio structuring? Have the basic rules changed? Do existing models work? Do we need new
approaches? Or, do we simply need to re-learn some good old fashioned financial principles?
Here's your chance to step back from day-to-day fluctuations in markets and think carefully
about the future of money management.
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| 4:05 p.m. |
Evaluations/Conference Adjourns |
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Registration Information
Enroll soon because space is limited. Register by Oct. 15 to pay the discounted registration fee. Registrations must be received seven days prior to the event in order to guarantee a seat and course materials. Allow approximately one week for receipt of confirmation.
Cancellations and Substitutions: Cancellations received by Oct. 22 will be assessed a $30 administrative fee. Cancellations received between Oct. 23 and Oct. 29 will be subject to a cancellation fee of 50 percent of the program fee. No refunds are given on or after the date of the program. A $30 administrative fee will be assessed for all substitutions and transfers. Registrants may substitute another individual up to the day before the conference. TSCPA must be notified in advance to ensure proper CPE and CFP credit.
Registration Fee Includes: conference, session highlights, continental breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
Suggested Dress: business casual.
TSCPA provides you with a Proof of Attendance that serves as your permanent record of participation. The Proof of Attendance, noting the credits earned, will be e-mailed within two weeks of the program.
Certified Financial Planners/CE Credit: TSCPA has received approval by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards to offer courses for Continuing Education (CE) Credit. If you are a Certified Financial Planner and would like to receive CFP/CE Credit for courses you attend, you must advise the TSCPA in advance of attending the course.
If you have special needs under the Americans with Disabilities Act, please attach a written description or call the society office at 615/377-3825 or 1-800/762-0272.
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201 Powell Place, Brentwood, TN 37027
By Phone
1-800/762-0272 or 615/377-3825
This conference is presented by The Educational & Memorial Foundation of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Personal Financial Planning Committee.
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