SENIORS-FOCUSED PODCASTS AND WEBCASTS
The “NASAA’s Senior Issues Committee Presents” is a free webcast that provides an inclusive platform for learning from the best and brightest minds who will discuss issues that matter most to those dealing with at-risk investors. This event is open to NASAA members and those interested in learning more about at-risk investor protection issues.
Spotlight On Seniors: Navigating the Challenges of Combatting Elder Financial Exploitation
Recorded: March 31, 2026
Recorded: June 11, 2026
Join the NASAA Senior Issues Committee for our second session in our spotlight series.
We’re pleased to share this event on elder financial exploitation.
In recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, this panel highlights the efforts to combat financial exploitation which are intensifying as awareness grows around its prevalence and impact. Strengthening these efforts requires a combination of preventive tools, early detection strategies, and coordinated responses across sectors.
Panelists examine practical tools designed to safeguard individuals’ financial well-being, including powers of attorney, conservatorship arrangements, and the use of trusted contacts. The discussion highlights how these mechanisms can be used effectively, and addresses their limitations, potential for misuse, and the importance of oversight and accountability.
Panelists include:
- Tara Ambrose, Minnesota Department of Commerce
- Chris Blomenberg, McHenry, Haszard, Roth, Hupp, Burkholder & Blomenberg
- Debbie Noury, Fidelity Investments
- Judge Ward “Rob” Robertson, Tuscaloosa County, AL Probate Court
- Jodie Lee White, Lee-White Law
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Spotlight On Seniors: Protecting Vulnerable Adults and Understanding Cognitive Decline
Recorded: March 31, 2026
Join us for an in‑depth conversation on how to recognize emerging risks facing older adults and take proactive steps to safeguard their independence and financial security. This session brings together practical insights on cognitive changes, scam awareness, and key legal and caregiving strategies to help families protect the people they love.
Panelists include:
- Amanda Senn, Alabama Securities Commission
- Dr. Katherine Cofer, Clinical Psychologist
- Pam Leonard, LBSW, CDP
- Dr. Beverly Thorn, Psychologist and Author
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NASAA’s Senior Issues Committee Presents: Scam Susceptibility: What Factors Increase One’s Susceptibility to Scams
Recorded: July 30, 2025
This webcast featured speaker Dr. Marguerite (Marti) DeLiema, Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. Dr. DeLiema addressed scam susceptibility and what factors increase one’s susceptibility to scams. She was joined by Andrew Hartnett, Co-Chair NASAA Senior Issues Committee, Deputy Commissioner Iowa Insurance Division.
Dr. DeLiema focuses her research on the factors associated with increased vulnerability to scams and fraud as well as on the effectiveness of consumer education messages to prevent fraud. This presentation will focus on the factors Dr. DeLiema’s research has demonstrated affect consumer’s scam susceptibility, including factors that increase consumer’s resilience.
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2025 NASAA Senior Issues Committee Presents: Build Knowledge and Gain Confidence: Empowering Women on their Investment Journey, Part 3
Recorded: March 26, 2025
This webcast was the third and final episode of a series of webcasts in recognition of Women’s History Month. It focused on financial independence as a critical aspect of personal growth and security. That’s why we believe it’s meaningful for women to actively engage in the world of investing. During this research-based session, you will gain knowledge and confidence to begin (or continue) your investment journey.
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2025 NASAA Senior Issues Committee Presents: Women, Aging, Money, Part 2
Recorded: March 19, 2025
The episode was the second installment of a series of webcasts in recognition of Women’s History Month. It built off the themes from the first episode and explored how industry is responding to financial issues faced by women as they age.
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2025 NASAA Senior Issues Committee Presents: Women, Aging, Money, Part 1
Recorded: March 12, 2025
This webcast was the first in a series of webcasts in recognition of Women’s History Month.
Entitled Women, Aging, Money, the webcast featured speakers who explored the themes of women, aging, and money. This presentation explored the vulnerabilities experienced by women as they age, discussed financial issues particular to women, and highlighted some of the characteristics of women investors.
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NASAA’s Senior Issues Committee Presents: International Approaches to Stopping Scams
Recorded: February 12, 2025
International criminal gangs are focused on perpetrating scams to steal money from the middle class in developed countries around the world. As Interpol secretary-general Jurgen Stock has said, “Driven by online anonymity, inspired by new business models and accelerated by Covid, these organized crime groups are now working at a scale that was unimaginable a decade ago.” This presentation explored both the current threat landscape as well as the ways in which certain countries have adopted policies to fight back against the criminals perpetrating these scams and fraud.
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NASAA’s Senior Issues Committee Presents: Protecting Older Investors from Scams
Recorded: July 31, 2024
This webcast presented three learning segments. In the first, we discussed an early-stage effort by Edward Jones to use data points from previous fraud victims to predict which current clients may be vulnerable to exploitation. In the second, we discussed empathetic and empowering communication techniques used to help overcome the fear, shame, and other emotions that prevent victims from acknowledging that the person at the other end of the line is a criminal. In the third, we discussed the progress of the Scams Against Older Adults Advisory Group what the FTC has learned in response to the Stop Senior Scams Act.
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NASAA’s Senior Issues Committee Presents: Behavioral Research/IA Systems and Solutions
Recorded: May 18, 2023
This webcast featured two learning segments. In the first, we presented research about the effects of gamification, digital engagement and the recent volatile market environments on investor behavior. In the second, industry experts discussed systems and solutions for Investment Advisers encountering senior and vulnerable investor fraud, including how to construct and manage systems to mitigate harm and execute quickly when needed to stop abuse or exploitation.
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NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Presents: Securities Regulators and Adult Protective Services Agents Speak
Recorded: November 3, 2022
This, webcast featured knowledgeable securities regulators and adult protective services professionals who work in the trenches to combat at-risk investor abuses. Our guests discussed the issues that they confront and the methods that they use to mitigate exploitation.
Our panel highlighted new trends that they see, enforcement work to stop the frauds, multidisciplinary teams working at the local, state and federal level, training and education initiatives and more. They also examined how the SEC, FINRA, the states and APS agencies work together, and separately, in this space.
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NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Presents: Cognition: Problems and Solutions
Recorded: May 4, 2022
Posted: July 6, 2022
This webcast is the second in NASAA’s webcast series, NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Presents. It addresses the theme “Financial Services Industry Experts Speak.” In this recording, speakers from the financial services industry discuss how they work within their firms and with other stakeholders to mitigate vulnerable investor harm.
NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Presents: Cognition: Problems and Solutions
Recorded: February 3, 2022
Posted: March 10, 2022
NASAA is pleased to announce the premiere episode of its new webcast series, “NASAA’s Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee Presents.” The premiere episode, Cognition, Problems and Solutions, focuses on new ways to better understand the brain and cognition. Presenters discuss how environment, age, gender, and other factors can impact an investor’s ability to make sound financial decisions and the steps that can be taken to prevent exploitation.
Senior Connection
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