Equity Trustees was established as an independent Trustee and Executor company for more than 145 years and has become one of Australia’s largest specialist trustee companies.
Most of us know someone who will suffer through hot summer days without air conditioning, and research shows that more people die from heat waves than any other extreme weather event in Australia.
COVID19 has meant that many of us are in lockdown and many families have seen this as a good opportunity to either connect with new charities or have conversations with charities they know well.
Greater Dandenong in Victoria’s South-East is proudly Australia’s most culturally diverse region and home to the highest population of people seeking asylum in Victoria.
At the 2019 UN Conference of the Parties (COP25) more than 500 Certified B Corporations (B Corps) pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030, 20 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets.
Australia has long recognised that residential aged care is not suitable for young people with disabilities, who have different needs to the elderly and require social contact with their peers.
Fund managers now have a cost-effective way to access the booming ASX retail investor market by quoting their unlisted managed funds on the exchange, that is, converting to “Quoted Funds”.
In January 2020 while the devastating summer bushfires were still burning, two charitable trusts were established by the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and Equity Trustees in a bid to create a way to securely collect funds in readiness for the recovery and rebuilding effort to come.
It’s no easy job taking on the role and responsibility of attorney appointed under an Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA) and in some cases, it’s difficult to know exactly what you can and can’t do as an attorney.