Overview

Traditional estate planning tools are no longer sufficient for today’s increasingly complex financial and family structures. This session explores innovative and practical strategies to protect assets, manage wealth transfer efficiently, and ensure long-term financial stability across generations.

Webinar Content

• Understanding the limitations of conventional wills and testamentary trusts
• Exploring alternative estate planning structures, including:
  • Inter vivos trusts and their ongoing relevance
  • Family investment entities and business trusts
  • Offshore and local asset protection vehicles
• Donations and inter vivos transfers
• Integrating estate planning with tax efficiency and succession planning
• The role of fiduciaries, trustees, and compliance (including UBO and FIC considerations)
• Real-world case studies highlighting effective strategies and common pitfalls

Competencies Developed

By attending this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify and assess alternative estate planning approaches
• Understand key compliance, fiduciary, and risk management considerations
• Develop holistic estate plans that align with both client objectives and local regulatory requirements

Presenter

Cheryl Howard 

Cheryl Howard qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte. Her professional career remained with Deloitte and Kessel Feinstein (now SNG Grant Thornton) in their respective Private Client tax departments. In 1994 she joined BoE Private Bank, managing the Private Client, Deceased Estates and Fiduciary businesses for the Johannesburg office. 

In 2000 she formed her own multiple family office practice, focusing solely on high-net-worth clients, attending to the administration of their tax, estate planning and fiduciary requirements. 

Cheryl sold her business in 2018 to an international fiduciary company, managing their South African office until the end of 2020. After an almost three-year sabbatical, Cheryl has re-commenced her Family Office Practice with the same professional service offerings as before, with a small team of professionals.

She is also involved in various coaching and training projects within the family office, tax and accounting, and fiduciary sectors. Using her 30 odd years’ experience in high-net-worth client consulting and client relationship management to develop teams and professionals wanting to specialise within family office planning and the high-net-worth client. Sharing practical experiences and family planning stories while giving the professional a practical toolkit to build upon their technical studies. Basically to nurture and refine the consultant to be client centric while providing best advice.

Cheryl has both presented on and written articles for various professional bodies, media and journals on family office planning and its dynamics. She has appeared on TV and radio discussing various aspects of estate, tax, and financial planning.

She has been a past Board member of the Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa (FISA) and Society of Tax and Estate Practitioners (STEP) as well as a task team member on various SARS / Treasury projects.

CPD

This event and successful completion of the online assessment will secure 2 hours verifiable output Tax CPD points per session.

Event Investment

Free for Tax Technician, Tax Practitioner, Tax Accountant CPD subscribers and Practice Packages. Not a CPD subscriber yet? Click here to register now.

• Regular price:  R460.00
• Group booking discounts available when you register for a group.

Payments & Cancellations

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