Original Master Class
The GFP Master Class is intended to provide students with the relevant knowledge to work with expats who have moved to the U.S. or Americans abroad with their outbound planning.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Global Financial Planning
Lesson 2: Tax Systems, US Tax Treatment of Foreign Income and Passive Foreign Investment Companies (PFICs)
Lesson 3: Definitions of Residency, Domicile and Source of Income
Lesson 4: Pre-immigration Planning & Covered Expatriates
Lesson 5: Treaties, Reporting and Tax Compliance
Lesson 6: Investments and Banking
Lesson 7: Retirement Account Transfers and Social Security
Lesson 8: Risk Management and Foreign Exchange
About this course
We are thrilled to announce that GFP Institute and the Investments and Wealth Institute have entered into a strategic partnership to provide cross-border content to members of the Investments and Wealth Institute. As of 2024, a condensed version of the GFP US Inbound/Outbound International Financial Planning Master Class is now being offered by the Investments and Wealth Institute and be known as ‘Global Financial Planning Essentials’.
This newly offered program covers the fundamental principles and strategies of international financial planning. It aims to equip financial professionals with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the complexities of cross-border financial planning.
The partnership between GFP Institute and Investments and Wealth Institute will ensure that members of the Investments and Wealth Institute have access to high-quality, comprehensive education in the field of international financial planning. We believe that this collaboration will greatly benefit financial professionals seeking to expand their expertise in the global financial landscape.
We are excited about this new chapter and look forward to the continued growth and success that this partnership will bring.
Thank you for your continued support and commitment to advancing the field of international financial planning. Click here to learn more.
What you'll learn
- Develop an awareness of the bear-traps, pitfalls, and missteps that exist in this specialized area of financial advice.
- Understand the hot button issues that affect advice delivery and how an engagement differs when working with an expat in the US or Americans abroad.
- Know the questions you need to ask and the additional documentation you need to collect.
- Expand your horizons with a complex body of knowledge and build contacts in a community offered nowhere else.
Instructors

Ashley Murphy, CFP® GFP Fellow, is a tri-citizen of the USA, Australia and the UK. Ashley is the founder and Principal of Arete Wealth Strategists Australia, a fee-only financial planning and investment management firm for Australian/American expatriates in the United States and Australia.
From 2014 - 2017, Ashley taught in the CFP programs at UC Berkeley Extension and Golden Gate University. He served as a Knowledge Circle host for the Financial Planning Association's International and Cross-Border Knowledge Circle (2017 - 2019), and is a regular conference speaker. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning in Australia making him one of the few financial advisors qualified in multiple countries. Ashley has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and profiled in Financial Advisor Magazine.
Ashley lives with his wife Eliza, and daughters Elise & Jasmine in Minneapolis, MN. He enjoys cycling, reading and world travel. He is a futurist with interests in architecture, renewable energy and demographics.

David Lesperance is one of the world’s leading international tax and immigration advisors. He has co-authored, with an LSE Professor Emeritus, a key book on the impact of the movement of the Wealthy on the countries they leave and to which they move. David’s personal interest in these areas of law grew from his experience working as Canadian immigration and customs officer while studying law.
Since being called to the bar in 1990, he has established his expertise with major law firms, his own law firm and as a private consultant. David has successfully advised scores of high net-worth families in residence/citizenship and domicile strategies to protect family wealth and well-being. These "Back-Up Plans" are both tax efficient and liveable in meeting the needs and preferences of all family members. This planning is influenced by his having relocated his own family three times. David is supported by a team of professionals, some of whom have worked with him since the early 1990s.

Melvin A. Warshaw has nearly 40 years of experience as an estate planning and tax lawyer. He currently represents U. S. and non-U. S. families and companies on a wide range of personal and business tax matters, including cross-border income and estate tax planning, corporate and partnership tax issues, S corporations, and income taxation of trusts and estates.
Mr. Warshaw began his legal career in the Office of the General Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service National Office in Washington, D.C. He was a partner of McDermott Will & Emery’s Private Client Department. He also served as a senior wealth advisor in JP Morgan Private Bank’s. He was also former general counsel to a large national brokerage.
Mr. Warshaw received an L.L.M. (Tax) from Georgetown University Law Center. He received a J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law and he received a B.A. cum laude from the University of Rochester.

Marina Hernandez CFP® EA is an Argentine and Spanish citizen by birth and a US citizen by choice.
In 2009 she founded MHTax, a tax preparation firm, to provide tax advisory services to US immigrant and US expat families, and in April 2020 she co-founded Swiss American Wealth Advisors, a Pennsylvania Benefit Company providing fiduciary, fee-only wealth management services within the Dynamic Wealth Advisors network.
Marina believes that quality education is the great equalizer. Her firm’s public benefit purpose is therefore centered on improving access to quality education for underprivileged children and on providing free tax education to US immigrants and expats.

As a fiduciary, Raoul specializes in working with individuals and families who enjoy international lifestyles. He also provides integrated planning and strategies for growing and protecting wealth, including tax and estate planning, risk management and retirement planning.
Prior to joining Mariner Wealth Advisors, Raoul was a wealth manager at Congress Asset Management, where he supervised the Miami office and was responsible for 75 client households. Before that, he worked as a director for Pinnacle Advisory Group, leading Miami operations and serving as a member of the management team.
Raoul has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Financial Planning from the College of Financial Planning.
Original Master Class
The GFP Master Class is intended to provide students with the relevant knowledge to work with expats who have moved to the U.S. or Americans abroad with their outbound planning.
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