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Market conditions like shifting interest rates, depressed asset valuations, and equity swings directly determine how effective certain estate planning strategies can be. The same volatility making your clients anxious is also opening planning windows that won't stay open indefinitely. This guide shows you how to read the current environment and act on it.
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Jan 06, 2026
A step-by-step checklist to guide your client conversations, updated for 2025. This playbook is inspired by the guide used by Vanilla founder Steve Lockshin and his advisory firm AdvicePeriod, based on Lockshin’s 30+ years of financial advice and estate planning for some of the most successful ultra-high net worth clients in the world.
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Jul 11, 2025
Win new clients by downloading and sending this presentation to potential clients and prospects alike. It can help them understand why estate planning matters and how you, as their trusted advisor, can make the process as simple as possible by using Vanilla.
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Feb 26, 2025
Trusts are an important component of financial and estate planning, but there are many types of trusts – each with unique pros and cons. This guide helps financial advisors and clients sort through the many different types of trusts to better understand what they might want to employ for their own estate strategies.
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May 29, 2024
Discover how central planning teams can prepare and empower advisors to have foundational yet meaningful estate planning conversations with clients.
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Sep 26, 2023
Whether they're a new client, or a client with whom you haven't discussed estate planning with in the past, this checklist will take you through some important questions to ask to ensure you help meet their goals. This checklist is broken down by net worth and includes the important documents you'll want to make sure you gather.
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Apr 04, 2023
With Vanilla, advisors can create a new type of deliverable that both clients and prospects have never seen before. Not only does Vanilla help advisors increase the depth of their service offerings, but it also helps an advisor’s client actually understand the full picture of their wealth and legacy. Download a sample report below.
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Apr 04, 2023
With Vanilla, advisors can create a new type of deliverable that both clients and prospects have never seen before. Not only does Vanilla help advisors increase the depth of their service offerings, but it also helps an advisor’s client actually understand the full picture of their wealth and legacy. Download a sample report below.
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Sep 19, 2022
Tax planning for clients with taxable estates has always been complex. The best way to explain strategies is with diagrams, not documents. That’s why we’ve put together this deck of 10 diagrams to explain some of the advanced estate planning strategies and why anyone with $10M in assets should care about estate tax.
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