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Unicen Benefits

We take a ‘team of professionals approach’ working with a network of professionals who each have specific domain expertise, and contribute to helping you fulfill your plans and intentions.

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Wealth and Estate Optimization​

An integrated approach to aligning legal, tax, and financial strategies.

Financial

  • Clearly written directives that are effective, consistent and reflective of plans and intentions.
  • The benefits and drawbacks of using different structures such as trusts, corporations, jointly-held assets, and beneficiary designations.
  • Outline the opportunities and methods to put in place other legal and non-legal directives that complete estate plans such as a ‘letter of last wishes’ or a letter to your certain family members providing instructions or explanations for your decision making.

Tax

  • Minimize tax on retirement income, and illustrate tax strategies and available post-retirement.
  • Forecast estate taxes and probate fees, and make clear who, how, and when the estate (and trust) taxes are payable.
  • Illustrate the potential benefits of advance gifting and the tax sheltering opportunities are available to beneficiaries of advance gifts.





Legal

  • Retirement income that achieves current and future spending needs including strategic timing of when to commence certain income streams from pensions, registered accounts, and corporate assets.
  • Ensuring that there is sufficient liquidity to meet unanticipated but possible expenses such as late in life health and personal costs, as well as estate taxes.
  • Positioning capital that reflects objectives, risk tolerance, and personal preferences.

Independent Advice

  • We are independent consultants who are not tied to a financial institution or service provider.
  • Our advice is holistic taking into consideration your total wealth and estate position.
  • Our advice is integrated with your engagements with your other trusted professionals.

Unified Access

  • Access to a centralized perspective of your wealth and estate status.
  • Access to relevant legal, tax, and financial knowledge relative to your wealth and estate.
  • Access to a network of professionals and other essential services at the right time.

Flexible Engagement

  • You decide how you want to engage with us and for how long.
  • We provide options for short term one-time, hourly engagements to longer term project-based engagements.
  • We offer event-based educational sessions and family meetings to facilitate engagement with trusted family members who will or have taken on a fiduciary role in the management of your affairs.

Multi-Generational​

Helping families navigate generational change with clarity, foresight, and continuity.

We Smooth Family Role Transitions

  • When you are called upon to support and represent your aging parents and their estates when they pass.
  • From one spouse to another as one spouse becomes incapacitated or dies.
  • When you become incapacitated or pass and your children are called upon to provide support to you as you age or perform the role of executor of your estate.
  • Thoughtful, strategic transfer of wealth while you are alive so you can experience your children and grandchildren benefiting from advance gifting.
  • We consider the causal impact of role transitions, advance gifting, and wealth transfer at end of life to ensure that you well informed when making decisions.

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Unicen brings together legal, financial, and tax experts in one centre to help families navigate wealth and estate transitions with clarity, confidence, and continuity.

Contact Information

  • Phone:
    +1 (250)-800-4078
  • Mail:
    info@unicen.ca
  • Address:
    177 Weld St #101,
    Parksville, BC V9P 2G3

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