Course Description

4 Hour Annuity Best Interest / Suitability — Insurance Agent CE (Georgia)

✅ Approved by the Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire
Provider Number: 243388 | Course ID: 73515

Stay compliant with Georgia’s annuity best-interest expectations and strengthen your annuity recommendations with a clear, practical refresher built for real-world sales conversations. This 4-hour online continuing education course explains the best-interest standard, suitability responsibilities, disclosures, documentation, and supervision expectations—so you can confidently recommend annuity products while reducing compliance risk.

Price: $12.99 — No added or extra fees.
What you see is what you pay: $12.99 total at checkout.

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Quick Benefits

• 100% online and self-paced

• Log in and out anytime without losing your place

• Instant certificate of completion

• Credits reported within 24 hours of course completion

• Mobile-friendly (complete on phone, tablet, or computer)

• Money-back guarantee

• Call/Text Support: 1-800-698-2770

• Trusted by thousands of licensees nationwide with 10+ years of CE experience

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Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for Georgia resident insurance producers who:

• Sell, solicit, or negotiate annuity products and want a clear, structured understanding of best-interest and suitability expectations

• Need a Georgia-approved 4-hour annuity best-interest/suitability CE course that supports compliance and audit-ready documentation

• Want practical guidance on consumer profiling, needs analysis, replacement comparisons, disclosures, and conflicts of interest

• Work with seniors or vulnerable adults and want stronger guardrails for ethical recommendations and communications

• Need to complete required CE by their Georgia renewal deadline and prefer a fast, self-paced online option

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State CE & Renewal — What to Know (Georgia Insurance Agents)

Georgia continuing education is tracked on a biennial (every 2 years) cycle, and your CE is generally due on or before the last day of your birth month during your renewal period.

For most Georgia resident producers and adjusters:

• If licensed less than 20 years: 24 total CE hours every 2 years

• If licensed more than 20 years: 20 total CE hours every 2 years

• Ethics: 3 hours are required each biennial renewal period

• Course repeat rule: You generally cannot receive credit for repeating the same course within the same reporting period

• Carryover: Excess CE may carry forward to the next period (limits apply), but ethics must be taken each renewal period (carryover ethics won’t satisfy the next ethics requirement)

Important note on “special topic” training: Georgia has specific product-topic training categories (such as Annuity Best Interest). If you sell annuity products, completing the state-required annuity best-interest training is essential—and this 4-hour course is designed to meet that requirement while also counting toward your CE totals.

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How to Renew (Step-by-Step) — Georgia Insurance License

1. Know your deadline: Your renewal/CE cycle is biennial, and CE is typically due by the last day of your birth month in your renewal year.

2. Confirm your CE requirement: Most resident producers need 24 hours (or 20 hours if licensed more than 20 years) plus 3 hours of ethics each cycle.

3. Complete any required special-topic training that applies to what you sell:

   • If you sell annuities, complete your Annuity Best Interest / Suitability training (this course).

4. Finish the course online: Work at your pace, log in/out as needed, and complete all modules.

5. Pass the exam and download your certificate instantly: Save it for your records.

6. Allow time for reporting: Your credits are reported within 24 hours of completion.

7. Renew your license online: Once CE is satisfied and posted, complete your renewal through the standard Georgia online renewal process.

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What You’ll Learn — Course Outline

Hour 1: Regulatory Framework and the Best-Interest Standard
You’ll review the purpose of the annuity best-interest framework, key definitions used in annuity recommendations, and what the best-interest obligation requires in day-to-day practice. You’ll also clarify how best-interest differs from traditional suitability and how responsibilities are shared between the producer and the insurer. Finally, you’ll learn what strong documentation and recordkeeping should look like, including handling consumer refusals and self-directed purchases.

Hour 2: Producer Duties Across the Sales Process
This section focuses on building a compliant recommendation from start to finish: gathering a complete consumer profile, performing needs analysis, and establishing a reasonable basis for your recommendation. You’ll cover product risk/feature disclosure, compensation and conflict disclosures, and best practices for replacements and 1035 exchanges. Special emphasis is placed on working with seniors and vulnerable adults, recognizing red flags, and using appropriate escalation pathways.

Hour 3: Annuity Products, Riders, and Risk-Reward Characteristics
You’ll compare fixed, indexed, and variable annuities—how they work, what they guarantee, and when they may (or may not) be appropriate. You’ll review common riders and features, surrender schedules and market value adjustments, fees and opportunity cost, and taxation basics that affect suitability. You’ll also learn how to use illustrations responsibly, including how to label non-guaranteed elements and avoid misleading hypothetical scenarios.

Hour 4: Supervision, Advertising, Ethics, and Case Studies
You’ll examine supervision and file review expectations, including common red-flag triggers, remediation, and oversight practices. You’ll also cover advertising and consumer communications, prohibited sales practices (such as twisting, churning, and misrepresentation), and complaint handling and rescission considerations. The course closes with applied case studies to practice documentation, disclosures, and conflict mitigation in realistic annuity recommendation scenarios.

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Why 1st Choice CE

When your renewal deadline is approaching, you need a course that’s simple, fast, and recognized by the state—without checkout surprises. 1st Choice CE delivers a smooth online experience with the flexibility busy producers need.

• $12.99 total — no added fees

• Instant certificate

• Credits reported within 24 hours

• Start/stop anytime

• Call/Text support: 1-800-698-2770

• Money-back guarantee

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Enroll Now

Complete your Georgia 4 Hour Annuity Best Interest / Suitability CE today for $12.99—no extra fees.

Course Details

• Approved by The Office of Commissioner of Insurance and    Safety Fire
• Approved Provider #243388
• Approved Course #73515
• Instant Access - Online Course.
• Study At Your Own Pace. Anytime.
• On Any Device. Phone, Tablet, or Computer.
• Hassle Free Navigation. Easy to Follow.
• Certificate emailed immediately upon completion.
• 1-800-698-2770 for any questions.