For compliance officers: everything you want to know
Your personnel know your products and services well. But how well do they understand
the special needs of a senior client? Our CSA training closes the gap between knowing the
features of an offering and determining its suitability when issues of aging come into play.
If your company offers products or services suitable for seniors, it’s important that your
personnel be aware of the special challenges that arise when working with aging clients.
By taking into account the health, financial and social issues that shape seniors’ lives,
a professional can better help a senior make choices that align with the senior’s best interests.
As a compliance officer, you’re comfortable in a regulatory environment. You’re familiar with
the rules particular to your industry—their clarity, their effectiveness, and how they’re enforced.
In light of this, SCSA is confident that you would endorse the compliance mechanisms we have in
place at SCSA. Our CSA Code of Professional Responsibility (see link at left) not only obligates a
CSA to follow high ethical standards, but it provides concrete rules for compliant advertising on the
part of our members.
The CSA Board of Standards, an independent, non-profit organization, reviews complaints lodged against
CSAs for alleged violations of the CSA Code. Because the Code requires CSA disclosure of regulatory events,
Board cases have been filed, and designations revoked, on the basis of existing actions by compliance
organizations. (Please click “Disciplinary Actions” at left to view Board revocations from 2006; contact SCSA
Compliance to request information on prior disciplinary actions.) SCSA and the CSA Board value greatly
the oversight provided by industry compliance groups.
Now that you know the focus of our training and our emphasis on ethical business practices, wouldn’t you want
your personnel to add the CSA designation to their professional credentials?
Click here to learn more!
Items of interest
Society of Certified Senior Advisors welcomes a proposal from the North American Securities Administrators Association to adopt a nationwide standard for senior designations....[Read More]
Society of Certified Senior Advisors joins regulators in urging seniors to thoroughly understand "free lunch" seminars....[Read More]
In a September 28, 2007 letter to SCSA, The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) Office of Emerging Regulatory Issues clarified Regulatory Notice 07-43 to emphasize that FINRA "neither prohibits nor recommends the use of any professional designation." To read the letter, click here.
Society of Certified Senior Advisors® is providing voluminous materials and offering its training to members of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging... [Read More]
Society of Certified Senior Advisors® (SCSA) announced it is planning to seek accreditation for the CSA designation to meet a new rule in Massachusetts... [Read More]
An effort to match records of state insurance and securities complaints with the 12,000-plus membership of Society of Certified Senior Advisors® (SCSA) has resulted in SCSA filing nine complaints against Certified Senior Advisors (CSA) for "intentional nondisclosure."... [Read More]
The CSA Board of Standards adopted a resolution on January 3, 2007, that grants it the authority to impose a 1-year suspension of a CSA's designation if the CSA has violated Rule 509 of the CSA Code of Professional Responsibility....[Read More]