ANNA HACKER

Funds management

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...

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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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Expert Analysis

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....

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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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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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