ESTATE PLANNING

People & Products

Midwinter has integrated with estate planning platform Inherit Australia to help advisers have easier estate planning conversations with their clients....

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Financial planning

About 90% of Australians believe end-of-life planning is important according to new research, but two-thirds have flagged challenges that are preventing them from taking ...

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Financial planning

Many families are ill-equipped to handle estates after a loved one has died but there are four steps for advisers to smooth the process, according to Australian Executor ...

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Features

While financial advisers help clients with their estate plans, they would do well not to forget their own especially if they own their advice practice, Jassmyn Goh finds....

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Expert Analysis

Superannuation and social security are among themes where advisers are querying the most as they look to upskill their knowledge in a complex advice world, Craig Day writ...

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People & Products

The course will run until the end of March 2021 which will offer advisers training in estate planning for clients....

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Financial planning

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has condemned the Government’s proposed changes to self-managed superannuation funds structures as an estate planning vehicle and c...

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Features

Laura Dew explores how estate planning varies by age and what people need to do at each different stage of their life....

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Tools & guides

Centuria Life’s Michael Blake looks at investment bonds, compares their features and benefits to super, and explains why they can be an excellent parallel strategy to sup...

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Features

Planning for the times beyond your own existence is always a grim prospect, but Chris Dastoor writes that being organised will help reduce unnecessary heartache and hassl...

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Financial planning

Deakin University has become the first university in the world to offer a financial planning course with professional accreditation for estate planning....

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Expert Analysis

Anna Hacker outlines the significant risks that inexperienced Will executors can pose to clients’ estates....

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Financial planning

Advisers helping clients with estate planning may need to consider more than they bargained for, with funeral plots and burial rites often causing headaches when inadequa...

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Expert Analysis

As Australia’s population, and planners’ client base, grows increasingly older, advisers need to be positioned to give guidance on powers of attorney, statutory wills and...

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Features

With an ageing population, increasing longevity and policy reform making superannuation a less suitable tool for leaving wealth, Hannah Wootton looks at what structures p...

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