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Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Planning for Your Digital Legacy
[Podcast] Unlocking the Potential of Alternative Markets with HighVista Strategies’ Raphi Schorr
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The Preferred Return Podcast | AIFMD II – Implementation Begins
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AdvisorEsq Podcast Series - Episode 8 - Executive Insights: Succeeding as a COO at an RIA Firm
Nonprofit Basics: Unpacking Prudent Investments, PRIs and MRIs
Fintech Focus Podcast | Are Regulators Dictating Fintech Deal Terms?
A 2024 Economic Outlook - Troutman Pepper Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - New Federal Rule Aims to Hold Investment Advisors to a Higher Standard
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - Enterprise Ireland and U.S. Market Entry
Cornerstone Research Experts in Focus: Jules van Binsbergen
Podcast Episode 189: Adding Context to Compliance and Color To Your Legal Practice
Basics of Impact Investing: A Conversation About Investment Policies and Evaluation Metrics For ESG Investors
WorldSmart: Un Puente Entre Dos Mundos— Inversiones Entre EEUU y América Latina
Coffee & Regs - Investment Monitoring Rewind & 2022 Preview
As global attention sharpens on climate change and social justice issues, sustainability and responsible governance are increasingly becoming higher priorities for 'Millennial' and 'Gen Z' Beneficiaries....more
Managing a Special Needs Trust (SNT) comes with tremendous responsibility. Trustees are not only tasked with safeguarding the financial future of a beneficiary with special needs, but they must also ensure that trust assets...more
Now that Pennsylvania recognizes directed trusts, corporate fiduciaries should be aware that sharing trust responsibilities could create both legal liability and administrative burdens. The law, which went into effect late...more
A plan provider once asked me if I had written a comprehensive article on why trustee-directed 401(k) plans are superior to participant-directed plans. Although I believe in this argument, I haven’t actually written such an...more
While PC software programs are a practical improvement over the trustee’s hard-copy ledger book, when it comes to keeping track of trust income and principal these programs still require serious clerical monitoring on the...more
The Prudent Investor Rule is a legal principal that requires fiduciaries to act in the best interests of a beneficiary and exercise reasonable care, skill, and caution when making investment decisions, which was codified in...more
Estate planning is an essential process which can ensure that your wealth is distributed appropriately after you pass. Every estate planning attorney’s goal is to assist clients to protect their assets, instead of allowing...more
Issues affecting all schemes - General Election – impact on pensions - The General Election resulted in a landslide victory for the Labour Party. While no pensions-related announcements have been made since the election by...more
If the trustee in breach of trust conveys the trust property to a third party to the trust relationship, would the transferee be a necessary party to any action for breach of trust that the trust beneficiaries might bring?...more
Just when trustees are feeling safe to go back into the water after the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal spoke in Zhang Hong Li v. DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd [2019] along comes Ivanishvilli v. Credit Suisse Trust Ltd [2023]...more
Join us for our 15th Annual Fiduciary Focus! Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Topics Include: - Recent Developments in Wealth Planning - Using Trustee Investment Statements - Strategies to Avoid Fiduciary...more
If you manage a private investment fund that is subject to Title I of ERISA and is not a feeder fund (an “ERISA Fund”), you should, before December 1, 2023, take the steps described below in order to comply with the DOL’s...more
On September 8, 2023, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Danny Werfel announced the rollout of a coordinated enforcement strategy that will involve audits of returns filed by 75 of the largest partnerships operating...more
So far, 2022 has been a rough year for portfolio management. The war in Ukraine, China’s zero tolerance for COVID-19, 40-year inflation highs, and rising interest rates have created significant market volatility....more
Florida recently enacted its version of the Uniform Directed Trust Act, which authorizes someone other than the Trustee (referred to as a Trust Director) to direct the Trustee to act or not to act. Florida is 1 of 15 states...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has idled workers and the coming weeks will bring more news of business closures and bankruptcies. After a decade of sustained growth, we are facing a recession of uncertain depth and duration. The New...more
Bank trust departments, also referred to as corporate trustees, provide professional management to the administration of California trusts. People may choose to name a bank to act as successor trustee when they can no longer...more
Please join our Public Pensions & Investments Group for our webinar, "Legal Consequences of Shelter-in-Place Orders and Beyond for Public Pensions Systems," on May 7, 2020. As COVID-19 continues to transform the private...more
For many Trustees, the current economic environment is probably the most challenging they have ever faced. As the coronavirus epidemic sweeps across the country and throughout much of the world, the stock markets have...more
Over the last several weeks, financial markets have seen some of the largest swings in history, and as a result, fiduciaries have seen dramatic shifts in the value of trust investments. Accordingly, fiduciaries should take a...more
Effective January 1, 2020, the new Illinois Trust Code (ITC) will replace the Illinois Trusts and Trustees Act, ushering in several changes of note for fiduciaries. In light of the ITC, fiduciaries and estate planners should...more
If you have been appointed the trustee of a trust, it is a strong vote of confidence in your judgment and trustworthiness. It is also a major responsibility. A trust is a legal arrangement through which one person (or an...more
Gregory J. Nowak, a partner and practice leader for hedge funds in Pepper Hamilton’s Funds Services Practice Group, hosts a monthly webinar series for West LegalEdcenter. This month, Mr. Nowak, is joined by Richard Juliano,...more
Words Matter - So, you’re cruising along in the pre-FATCA/CRS world, providing fiduciary services for your clients, setting up accounts in either the name of the trust, foundation, underlying company or other wealth...more