Fiduciary 360 FI360 is the global leader in providing training programs, tools, and professional designations for investment fiduciaries. This includes financial managers, members of boards of directors, and people who manage money for others. FI360’s training programs provide the most comprehensive education available for training investment fiduciaries. Participants learn about prudent investment processes and how to implement those practices in real-life situations. All of this creates a greater understanding of the duties of fiduciaries and reduces instances of negligence in the investment industry.

Given the highly publicized accounting scandals of companies such as Enron, Tyco International, WorldCom, and others, the demand for training programs from FI360 has skyrocketed. Their market is comprised of over 5 million U.S. and global investment fiduciaries but it is simply too large and geographically dispersed to serve with classroom training, which is costly to hold and difficult to administer. Without an alternative to classrooms, FI360’s growth was limited.

The Starcast Solution The solution was StarCast, and in late 2004, FI360 introduced a web-based Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) curriculum, which was the equivalent of their classroom offering. Their online courses were an immediate hit with customers, primarily because of their ease of use and convenience. Customers are now able to go to the FI360 web site, choose the online courses they want to buy, pay for them online, take the online classes, take the online exams, and receive their certificate online — all without traveling to a single classroom.

Today, FI360 offers training in three formats: web courses, classroom courses, and a combination of both. However, feedback from customers is encouraging FI360 to migrate more and more in the direction of online class publication.

Built To Scale From a business perspective, online training is easier for FI360 to manage, easier to schedule, simpler to update, and more profitable than classroom training. StarCast allows the same PowerPoint training materials they use in the classroom to be repurposed for the web, which made the transition to the Internet quite easy for FI360. StarCast online training is also far more scalable than classroom training, which means FI360 can continue to grow and serve education markets across the U.S. and other countries.

For more information on Fiduciary 360, go to http://www.FI360.com.