Investment Planning
Investment planning is more than portfolio construction — it’s about aligning strategies with a client’s goals, values, and risk tolerance.
Whether guiding accumulation or managing decumulation, investment planning plays a central role in financial decision-making.
Why It Matters
Sound investment planning ensures that clients can meet their short- and long-term objectives through diversified, tax-aware, and purpose-driven portfolios. As markets shift and life stages evolve, planners must adapt investment strategies to protect and grow client assets with discipline and care.
Key Focus Areas
Understanding Investment Fundamentals
Strengthen your grasp of asset classes, portfolio theory, time horizon alignment, and how investments support broader financial plans.
Assessing Risk Tolerance and Suitability
Learn how to evaluate client risk preferences, timeframes, and capacity for loss to make appropriate investment recommendations.
Managing Portfolio Design & Monitoring
Explore diversification strategies, rebalancing processes, and techniques to evaluate performance and manage investor behavior.
Featured Learning Opportunities
Apply Core Investment Concepts
Access tools, illustrations, and examples to deepen your understanding of return expectations, volatility, and time value of money.
Integrate Investing into the Planning Process
Explore guidance on how to align investment strategies with tax planning, retirement, estate, and client-specific goals.
Support Informed Investor Behavior
Engage with behavioral finance concepts and learn how to help clients stay disciplined during periods of market change or uncertainty.
Smart investing starts with smart planning. Strengthen your ability to guide clients through investment decisions with clarity and confidence.
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Brought to you by the Investment Planning Knowledge Circle, panelists will share their approach to investment portfolio construction that is fit for the client: selection, allocation and expectation management.
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The educational goal of this program is to provide a richer understanding of how indexes are created and used across global financial markets in order to improve client outcomes.
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Self-study exam based on the Journal of Financial Planning, October 2025 Issue
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In this session brought to you by the International & Cross-Border Planning Knowledge Circle, Henley & Partners will share highlights from the Private Wealth Migration Report, explore what’s driving the Great Wealth Flight, and reveal where millionaires are moving to - and what it means for advisors and investors.
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Brought to you by the Investment Planning Knowledge Circle: A relaxation of Liberation Day tariffs has helped fuel an impressive market rally throughout much of the summer. With investor sentiment buoyed by easing trade tensions and resilient economic indicators, the momentum has been notable." As we approach the fall, a review of the key headwinds and tailwinds is in order. What forces are likely to shape the next phase of market performance—and what should investors be watching closely?
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Self-study exam based on the Journal of Financial Planning, June 2025 Issue
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Self-study exam based on the Journal of Financial Planning, April 2025 Issue
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Self-study exam based on the Journal of Financial Planning, March 2025 Issue
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Dimensional focuses on beating indices, not matching them, by using a systematic, flexible approach that targets higher expected returns.
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Self-study exam based on the Journal of Financial Planning, December Issue
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