Six Steps to Planning and Operating a Family Charitable Foundation
Susan
There is much guidance to those creating a trust on who they should select to be trustee, but there is very little advice to those named as trustee to help them determine whether to accept the appointment, and how to manage their fiduciary relationship with the trust beneficiaries. Susan will share her Top 10 Tips for Trustees to help you avoid getting sued.
Speaker at the Handler Thayer Family Office Forum in Chicago, IL on “The Family Office Meeting Agenda: Family Council & Governance Committee”
-Mission, Vision, Values
-Engaging the Family
-Engaging Others
Speaker for the Westchester County Estate Planning Council Annual Dinner Meeting on “Family Wealth — A Hard Look at the “Soft” Issues” — a discussion of the “soft issues” of estate planning, covering topics such as:
– How much to give, and when? How much to tell, and when?
– The equal vs. equitable debate
– Communication is Everything
– Prenuptial Agreements
– Family Governance / Family Meetings
– Family Philanthropy
Speaker on “Planning in Today’s Brave New World: A discussion of the “soft issues” of estate planning” at the NYS Society of CPAs Annual Estate Planning Conference on May 24, 2018 in NYC.
Speaker on “Family Business Succession Planning” at Tiger 21 Circle of Influence Meeting in NYC.
Engaged by a Private Bank to present to senior team members on the value of Strategic Communication between team members and the client family, communication within the client service team, and communication within the client family itself.
Speaker at the Marcum Wealth Dimensions meeting on May 11, 2018 in NYC on: “Top 10 Tips and Traps for Trustees”
There is much guidance to those creating a trust on who they should select to be trustee, but there is very little advice to those named as trustee to help them determine whether to accept the appointment, and how to manage their fiduciary relationship with the trust beneficiaries.
Speaker at TIGER 21 on “Family Wealth — A Hard Look at the “Soft” Issues“.
3/9/2018: Susan R Schoenfeld, CEO of Wealth Legacy Advisors LLC, one of North America’s foremost thought-partners to families of wealth and their trusted advisors, was last night crowned ‘Best Thought Leadership Individual’ at the prestigious Family Wealth Report Awards 2018. The judges awarded Schoenfeld for having “set high standards of thought leadership, not only by the calibre of her written material, but also through the standard of events and educational work done for the industry.”
