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Encore Academy

Comprehensive training, video based learning, and a vast knowledge base to help financial advisors excel in estate planning and serve clients with confidence.

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Processes

When you work with Encore, you do not simply send a link to your client and hope they do all the work. This course talks through the need to get a disclosure signed, a general meeting flow you can follow, and most steps advisors take to see a plan completed.


Disclosures
Scheduling a First Meeting
Meeting Flow
Internal Firm Decisions

You may be excited about estate planning, but it requires a plan to be successful. This section is intended to talk through ways to approach estate planning in your firm. There are two general approaches; first is a firm that has every advisor work directly with their own clients, the other is to have advisors begin the conversation but direct the client to a dedicated planner on their team.


Advisor or Planning Team Set Up
How to Announce Estate Planning Services to Your Clients
Beneficiary Designations

Estate Planning is done every time your client opens up a new account. From life insurance, to qualified or unqualified accounts, beneficiary designations must be made. Take a listen to different types of assets broken down and gain confidence in how to provide education to your clients around their various investment accounts.


Which Documents Relate to Funding?
Life Insurance
Real Property
Bank or Brokerage, Non-Qualified Accounts
Retirement and Qualified Accounts
Growth Hacks

Each lesson in growth hacks is a guide to show what the most successful firms are already doing. Estate Planning is not just a service you pull off the shelf once in awhile; it is the bedrock of the client relationship. Every beneficiary designation is estate planning, every marriage, divorce, child born, state moved, and many other events. Allow Estate Planning to put your firm into superdrive when it comes to uncovering assets, getting referrals, and building deeper relationships than ever before.


Create a Referral Engine
How to Uncover Hidden Assets
How to use Estate Planning to Attract New Clients
How to Engage the Whole Family
Admin

Use the Admin course to gain confidence in all the necessary steps your firm needs to take to offer estate planning with Encore.


Branding Materials in KB
Advisor v Client Paying?
Payment Methods
Adding more Users
Estate Planning 101

Navigate the Estate Planning 101 Academy page to gain confidence in the different aspects of estate planning. Each section focuses on one element of an estate plan and below the videos you will see links to related knowledge base resources.


What happens if you don't have one?
What is a Will?
What is a Trust?
What is a Financial Power of Attorney?
What is a Health Care Agent?
What is HIPAA?
What is a Deed?