LRS® Program
Completing the FPA’s Life Risk Specialist Accreditation Program will identify you as a specialist professional to your clients, peers and licensee. It will give you a professional edge in a competitive marketplace and can act as a stepping stone towards CFP® Certification.
With an ageing population, increased conservatism, and investors needing to closely manage their risks, there has never been a better time to consolidate your skills and gain a professional designation.
The LRS program is practical and focused on the needs of professional practitioners and is delivered via distance education. In line with our other designations, you will need to meet the 4Es – Ethics, Education, Examination and Experience before receiving your designation.
Enrolments
Enrolments in the LRS program have now closed for 2011. Enrolments for the first trimester of 2012 will open mid January with a trimester start date of 6 March. If you would like to register your interest in the LRS program please leave your details below and we will contact you once enrolments open for 2012.
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Entry requirements for LRS® Life Risk Specialist Program
If you’re currently an AFP® or CFP® practitioner and have enrolled in, or completed, an Advanced Diploma of Financial Services (ADFS) or equivalent, then you already meet the entry requirements.
Structure of the LRS Program
There are 2 education units:
1. FPA Professionalism Unit (CFP1) and
2. LRS2 – Life Risk Principles for Professional Planners
Obtaining your Designation
- Ethics: Member of FPA and committed to FPA Code of Professional Practice and completed the FPA Professionalism Unit.
- Education: The technical education requirement and the examination requirement are met through a specialist unit with 7 topics covering the full depth of life risk specialist advice.
- Experience: Authorised Representative Status for 12 months with 2 years full time or the equivalent part time client facing advice experience in this area.
Before you start please read this essential information
- Student Handbook
- Summary of Fees
- Key LRS enrolment dates for 2012
- For more information
- FOR CURRENT LRS STUDENTS – CLICK HERE TO LOG INTO THE STUDENT SUBJECT ROOM
CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, and 
are certification marks owned outside the US by the Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd (FPSB). Financial Planning Association of Australia Limited is the marks licensing authority for the CFP marks in Australia, through agreement with the FPSB.