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Estate Planning

Ensure your wealth reaches the right people — at the right time, with minimum friction

Estate planning is not just about writing a Will — it is about making sure every rupee you have built reaches the right people, through the right instruments, with minimum friction. As your financial planner, we coordinate the full picture.

What We Offer

Nomination Audit

We review and update nominations across all your financial instruments — mutual funds, insurance, bank accounts, PPF, EPF, and demat accounts.

Life Insurance Gap Analysis

We calculate exactly how much life cover is needed to protect your estate, fund your family's lifestyle, and clear outstanding liabilities.

Joint Account Structuring

Advise on "either or survivor" bank and investment accounts to ensure seamless transfer without legal delay.

MF & Demat Transmission

We guide your family through the process of transferring investments after death — step by step, AMC by AMC.

Loan Protection Planning

We link home and vehicle loans to appropriate term cover so your liabilities don't become your family's burden.

Will, Trust & PoA Referrals

For Will drafting, trust creation, and Power of Attorney, we connect you with empanelled lawyers — and stay involved as your financial coordinator.

Our Estate Planning Process

01

Estate Readiness Assessment

We walk you through a structured checklist to identify gaps across nominations, insurance, documents, and legal instruments.

02

Nomination & Insurance Audit

Every financial account and policy is reviewed for outdated or missing nominations. We calculate your family's exact cover requirement.

03

Asset Documentation

We help you create a centralised record of all assets, liabilities, and documents — and ensure your family knows exactly where to find them.

04

Legal & Tax Coordination

We refer you to trusted lawyers, CAs, and company secretaries for Will drafting, trust creation, and inheritance tax structuring.

05

Annual Review

Marriage, new assets, children — life changes your estate plan. We revisit it every year and after every major life event.

A Worked Example

A common gap: a client with a ₹40L mutual fund portfolio, a ₹25L PPF balance, and a life insurance policy still has their unmarried college nomination from 2014 listed as beneficiary — 12 years and a marriage later. On death, this doesn't make the transfer illegal, but it forces the family through a legal-heir certificate process that can take 6-18 months, versus a same-day nominee claim with an updated nomination.

Our nomination audit typically takes under an hour per client and catches these gaps across every mutual fund folio, insurance policy, bank account, and demat holding — usually finding at least one outdated or missing nomination even among clients who consider themselves organised.

What We Don't Do

The financial industry is rife with malpractices that hurt clients. Here's our pledge — the things we will never do to you.

Lead With Complex Products

We don't start with trusts and PoAs when basic nominations are missing. We fix what matters most first — simply and quickly.

Act as Legal Advisors

We are financial planners, not lawyers. For Will drafting and trust creation, we always refer you to qualified legal professionals.

Let You Procrastinate

Estate planning feels non-urgent — until it's too late. We give you a clear action list and follow through until every gap is closed.

Ignore Business Succession

If you run a business, your personal estate plan is incomplete without a succession plan. We make sure it's always part of the conversation.

Treat It as a One-Time Exercise

Marriages, births, new assets — life changes your estate plan. We review your estate readiness every year so nothing falls through the cracks.

Miss the Human Conversation

Estate planning involves difficult conversations about mortality. We approach them with sensitivity, care, and the long-term view your family deserves.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. A nominee is only a trustee who receives the asset on your behalf — legal ownership still passes according to succession law or your Will. Nominations and a Will serve different purposes and you need both.

A nominee is the person authorized to receive an asset from the institution (bank, AMC, insurer) after your death. A legal heir is who the law (or your Will) says the asset actually belongs to — these are not always the same person.

As soon as you have any assets, dependents, or insurance policies — not just when you're older or wealthier. The most common gap we find is outdated or missing nominations, which takes minutes to fix but is often ignored for years.

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