by Michael Perkins | Sep 10, 2023 | business law, Financial services, Information technology, Private Client Services, Trusts and Estates, wealth management
Protecting your digital life, not just your digital assets: a reflection on how our digital and analogue lives have become meshed and how this has impacted the world of estate planning. As our digital life has evolved, so have cyber threats. Cyber security is now a...
by Michael Perkins | Jun 4, 2023 | Financial services, Private Client Services, Trusts and Estates, wealth management, Working collaboratively
In this article, Michael Perkins talks about how collaboration fuels how we work with financial planners and other professionals to serve our clients better. Collaboration in the business system sense is a new engine room to drive the evolution of Estates Practice...
by Isabella Biddle | Nov 18, 2021 | Trusts and Estates
A trust is simply a rule book for the management of property by one person (the trustee) on behalf of another. Whether a trust can deliver wealth conservation or asset protection outcomes for a person, family or beneficiary group largely depends not only on the terms...
by Michael Perkins | Jul 17, 2021 | Education & Training, Employment, Private Client Services
Should lawyers, financial planners and accountants simply do what clients say? In a recent Capacity & Capability Awareness Workshop delivered to a group of CPAs, Michael Perkins was asked, “Is it not our job to do what our client tells us?”. Michael’s answer...
by Michael Perkins | Jan 19, 2021 | Legal, Medico-legal, Succession Planning (After Death)
Estate Planning: A Practical Guide for Professionals Helping Australians Age Well, 5th edition by Michael Perkins and Robert Monahan has now been published. Michael Perkins spoke to us about what has changed in the new edition and how it reflects the new estate...
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