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Funds management

Clearing up the distinctions of power of attorney

The distinction between a general power of attorney, enduring power of attorney and an attorney are often misunderstood, according to an estate lawyer and it is important...

Features

Planning through the ages

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

Expert Analysis

Helping your clients understand estate planning

It is critical that people understand what happens in that often-unknown process of passing away and are prepared with a will, writes Anna Hacker....

Features

The Final Plan

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...

Expert Analysis

Are your clients’ wills protected from family feuds?

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

Financial planning

How can you make clients’ estate plans “foolproof”?

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...

Expert Analysis

Understanding vulnerable clients: a growing requirement for financial advisers

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...