Expert estate planning attorney Shawn C. Snyder explored the ins and outs of cryptocurrency at the March meeting of the Community Foundation of Broward’s Professional Advisors Council.
The Professional Advisors Council is an elite group of attorneys, accountants and financial advisors who have referred clients who create charitable Funds at the Community Foundation. Exclusive opportunities to hear from wealth, tax and estate planning experts is one of the benefits for professional advisors who collaborate with the Community Foundation.
The PAC meeting on March 10 at the Community Foundation was a return to in-person gatherings following two years of online, virtual get-togethers during the pandemic.
In addition to providing a welcome return to face-to-face networking opportunities for PAC members, the meeting featured Shawn Snyder’s estate planning insights about helping clients manage digital assets, such as crypto.
Shawn walked PAC members through concepts such as block chain technology, the emerging metaverse marketplace, federal efforts to regulate digital assets and other examples of “the new way we are going to do business in the future.”
He emphasized the importance of helping clients create a “digital roadmap” to insure there’s record of what digital assets exist – from crypto to family photos stored electronically – so they can be accounted for in estate planning. Shawn, who is a frequent national lecturer on estate planning and asset protection issues, also discussed the simple step of encouraging clients to keep a centralized list of log-ins and passwords for digital assets.
“As planners, we need to be forward-looking enough to know how to take this technology and use it for our clients,” he said.
More than 13 percent of investors already include crypto in their investment portfolios and the numbers are going up, said Mark Kotler, the Community Foundation’s Senior Director, Philanthropic Services.
As the use of crypto becomes more prevalent, it’s expected to become a larger donation vehicle, he said.
“There are going to be many more organizations and community foundations taking these types of donations,” Mark said. “We are doing our research now to be in position.”
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To learn how the Community Foundation teams with professional advisors to help their clients make the most out of their charitable giving, contact Mark Kotler, Senior Director of Philanthropic services at mkotler@cfbroward.org or 954-761-9503, ext. 130.
