Certified Fee Insurance Specialist Program
The Certified Fee Insurance Specialist Program is the first and only designation that distinguishes the practitioner as one who is knowledgeable in *fee-based life insurance design and functionality, encompassing competency in policy style, design, concept and efficiency considerations with full disclosure and fiduciary care.
The Certified Fee Insurance Specialist Program is a professional practice application designation.
CFIS Requirements
To receive the CFIS designation, you must complete and successfully pass a total of 5 courses. The required courses are:
Introduction to Life Insurance
Life Insurance Policies
Life Insurance Concepts
Insurance Ethics
Six Primary Foundations for the CFIS & Final Exam
Several of the courses are available for additional CE credits. When purchasing a course, you will be able to find out what CE credits can be applied for, the registration status for your State, and add that applicable CE credit to your account.
Once you have completed your selected courses, you will take the required exams online. WebCE will immediately grade and validate the results upon completion.
In order to maintain the CFIS designation, validation of fee-insurance planning with implementation of a *fee-based insurance policy must be provided during the twelve-month period between designation renewals. Validation form and procedures will be provided after candidates pass the final exam and receive their designation.
To view curriculum and more information, use the following link, which will take you to our landing page at WebCE.
http://feeadvisors.webce.com
*A fee-based insurance policy is often referred to as no-load or low-load and pays no commission to the advisor.
(CFIS™ and Certified Fee Insurance Specialist are certification marks owned by the Fee Advisors Network)
If you have any questions, please contact us at (888) 854-0931
Life Analyzer©
The complete Life Analyzer© software is a unique total system to analyze, reconstruct and present UL and VUL policies as they should be - with full disclosure and true functionality.
For VUL policies, our unique breakthrough methodology calculates the true Cost of Insurance and will then allow you to select an index or portfolio for Historical Back Testing. You can take any three time frames from any period starting as far back as 1926.
The Life Analyzer© then locks in the true COI's of the policy and applies the selected market cycles forward, to bring greater clarity of assumed growth and the impact on policy performance. The comparison between the "illustrated" values, adjusted for actual COI's, and the performance of the three time periods selected will be charted out for review.
The copyrighted calculations through "Reverse Engineering" provide a true "peek" into that proverbial "Black Box" to reconstruct a substantive scenario. The fiduciary process that is now mandated in our new venue of responsibility is to substantiate any recommendation with documentation.
Fact:
Every advisor knows (or should know) that the illustration calculates the assumed rate-of-return (ROR) on a basic compounding of a static percentile. For example, if the illustration assumes a Net ROR of 8.95%, the internal calculations of the software compounds the cash value as you would with a compound interest rate chart.
Every advisor admits that this is inaccurate, since the market does not perform that way.
Illustrations require a "worst scenario" calculation based on a Zero (-0-) market performance (with maximum contract charges) as a "static flat" scenario.
Every advisor admits that this is inaccurate, since the market does not perform that way. In reality, the "worst scenario" is when a market has experienced negative periods.
With the "fiduciary" thing hanging over our head or designation, what are we to do? Can any of us be challenged when a policy doesn't perform because we, as advisors, knew the data was inaccurate in the illustration? Can we point to the many vague caveats as a defense?
Consider:
The VUL is sold as a concept, supported by an illustration.
The Illustration is a "Point-of-Sales" tool.
The client has to sign-off on the illustration and all of the (often brushed aside) caveats.
We have also actively used these illustrations for comparison purposes or to quasi-analyze different policies.
In regard to the "illustration", we have all either sold "it", analyzed "it", made money on "it", had forums and discussions on "it" or written about "it". Consumers ask us for "it". And, up until now, we were compromised by "it".
Now the advisor can develop and present a VUL or UL in the way "it" SHOULD function and perform in the Real World!!!
This system can be used for VUL Single and Survivorship Life and UL Single and Survivorship Life.
Licensing agreements are structured for Exclusive Territory use and protection (by County).
For more information, contact Joseph W. Maczuga at (888) 854-0931 or send us a e-mail through the Contact FAN link on our website.
To view a pictorial of this unique system, please click on the following link: Life Insurance Analyzer Pictorial
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