Continuing Education Requirements

To ensure a consistent approach to continuing education (CE) for industry professionals, FCSI CE requirements have been harmonized with the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) CE requirements.

Each FCSI must earn 42 CE hours – 30 hours of professional development (PD) and 12 hours of compliance education – during each three-year CE cycle. However, if an FCSI has satisfied his or her IIROC requirements, then they have automatically satisfied their FCSI requirements.

Compliance courses can be taken from CSI or in-house through a securities firm. PD courses can be taken from a variety of accredited sources including your firm, CSI, community colleges, universities and professional education providers.

All CSI course seminars qualify for FCSI CE credits. In order to determine whether a non-CSI course or seminar qualifies for FCSI CE credit, consult the IIROC’s course guidelines website.

If the non-CSI course meets the IIROC’s guidelines then the course can be used towards FCSI CE credit. It is up to the student or his/her firm to determine whether the non-CSI course meets the guidelines.

Credit Cycle
The current CE cycle ends on December 31, 2005.

You must retain supporting documents to confirm your completion of CE credits. Each cycle, a random number of FSCIs will be asked to submit supporting documents to verify credit hours that have been claimed.