Bruce W. Etherington, BA, CLU, CHFC,CFP
Advisor/Mentor, Speaker & Author
Etherington & Vukets
A fully accredited financial planner with a specialty in life insurance, Bruce holds the CLU, CHFC and CFP designations. His firm, Etherington & Vukets, specializes in family harmony and philanthropy and has the objective of creating $1 billion for charities and not-for-profits by 2010.
A renowned speaker, Bruce has spoken to virtually every major insurance and financial planning organization in the world. He has appeared 15 times on the platform of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), which is considered by many to be the preeminent sales organization in the insurance and financial planning industry. His book “See The People” is an international bestseller, as are his CDs which continue to change the lives of salespeople around the world.
Career Highlights:
- 40-year Life and Qualifying Member of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), the world’s premier educational institution in the fields of life insurance, financial and estate planning. MDRT is comprised of the top 2% of financial advisors in the world.
- 30-year Charter and Qualifying Member of the Top of the Table (TOT), which is comprised of the top 500 MDRT members in the world. Bruce was Chairman of the TOT in 1993.
- In its recent best-seller, “The Greatest Insurance Stories Ever Told”, Bruce is featured as one of MDRT's 12 greatest living members.
- Co-founder of Action Committee Taxation (ACT) in 1977, which successfully opposed the Canadian Federal Government’s proposed “Widow’s Tax”.
- Founding member, Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting (CALU) – today the most effective tax lobby group for financial advisors in Canada.
- Past Board Member, Life Underwriters Association of Canada (LUAC) and Institute of Chartered Life Underwriters of Canada/Canadian Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors (CAIFA) now Advocis.
- Past President, Toronto Advocis Chapter.
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