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Continuing Education credit — April 2020

As a subscriber to Financial-Planning.com, you can earn up to 12 hours of CE credit from the CFP Board and the Investments & Wealth Institute.

Please read the articles and answer the questions below. To find the related article, click on the hyperlinked title of the story – both online-only articles as well as stories published in the magazine.

You must answer 8 of the 10 questions correctly to qualify for CE credit.

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1. At what time must IRA owner begin to take RMDs, per the Secure Act? *This question is required.
2. For which clients would the maximum age for RMDs apply? *This question is required.
3. What is the final deadline for the required beginning date for RMDs? *This question is required.
4. When a retirement account owner dies prior to their RMD start date and has named a non-designated beneficiary, the beneficiary must distribute all assets in the account within how many years? *This question is required.
5. Per the calculations given, what would the balance of a client’s large-cap stock portfolio be on Dec. 31, 2019, if she started withdrawing from a portfolio with a starting balance of $250,000 on Jan. 1, 2000, assuming a 5% initial withdrawal and 3% COLA for the 19 annual withdrawals? *This question is required.
6. Per FINRA rule 2150(c), registered reps are prohibited from sharing in the profits or losses in a customer’s account, unless: *This question is required.
7. Which rule stipulates that all written customer complaints must be kept and preserved? *This question is required.
8. To be eligible as a 1031 exchange, fractional real estate investments need to be shares in which of the below? *This question is required.
9. If a client is forced to sell her land because the government is looking to build a road on it, how many years do they have to either reinvest the money in real estate or pay a capital gains tax, per eminent domain rules? *This question is required.
10. Which of these can be converted into a joint account? *This question is required.
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