Growth through Change

• A member who is a professional and who is in a leadership role in management within the financial services industry.
• A member whose role involves any of the following key concepts:
  • Coaching & Leadership
  • Business Development (including marketing, practice management, compliance and technology)
  • Training and Education
  • Recruitment, selection and retention

1. Licensed Manager

• Must meet the above mentioned general Manager Membership criteria;
• Must currently hold a life insurance licence, a mutual funds licence or a securities licence;
• Must be currently practicing and have an active client base;
• Must have advisors reporting to them;
• Must have errors & omissions insurance in place at time of application for membership

2. Unlicensed Manager

• Meets the above mentioned general Manager Membership criteria;
• Does not currently hold a life insurance licence, a mutual funds licence or a securities licence;
• Is not practicing or does not have an active client base.
• Must not have advisors reporting to them;
• Works in a head office staff position.

• Licensed Managers must meet the Designation requirement:
  • if the individual applied for membership on or after January 1, 2001, they have seven years or until January 2011, whichever is the later,  to be authorized to use any of the following designations approved by the Board of Directors: CLU, CFP, CH.F.C., RFP, CEBS, CEB, REBC, RHU, FLMI, FCSI, CIM, CFA, CMP, GBA, RPA or TEP;
  • if the individual applied for membership on or before December 31, 2000, they must be authorized to use one of the following designations approved by the Board of Directors by January 2011: CLU, CFP, CH.F.C., RFP, CEBS, CEB, REBC, RHU, FLMI, FCSI, CIM, CFA, CMP, GBA, RPA or TEP;
• Licensed and Unlicensed Managers are required to earn a minimum of 30 CE credits each calendar year, of which one credit must be from a recognized Ethics program. Each hour of CE credit approved by Advocis qualifies for CE credit. Any deficiency in one year must be made up by the next year in addition to the full year's requirement.
  Licensed Managers are required to maintain active E & O insurance coverage.
  Licensed and Unlicensed Managers are required to abide by the Advocis/CLU Institute Code of Professional Conduct.

• Voting privileges with The Financial Advisors Association of Canada.
• Voting privileges with the Institute of Chartered Life Underwriters of Canada where the member holds the CLU designation.
• Voting privileges with GAMA International Canada.

• Membership with Gama International (USA)
• Monthly issue of FORUM Magazine
• Membership rates on all Advocis and GAMA Professional Development programs, conferences and/or seminars.
• Recommendation to the public through the Advocis Find an Advisor search engine (Licensed Managers only)
• Access to Advocis Affinity programs
• Advocis Member rate for the APA Errors and Omissions plan (Licensed Managers only)
• The benefits of national and provincial advocacy

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