A dairy farm on Nicomen Island, in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia was where I grew up. Having gone through a poorly executed farm transition experience with my father's estate 18 years ago, I know all too well the result of not having a proper farm transition plan in place. In my family it led to family discord due to unequal treatment among family members and the bankruptcy of my brother who inherited the farm. Today, I work as a Senior Wealth Advisor with Assante Capital Management Ltd., a leading Canadian wealth management firm with extensive experience in family farm transitions....

Are you very interested in making sure that your hard-earned money is invested wisely? Hiring the wrong advisor will put that goal in jeopardy. Every day, affluent boomers, business owners and farm families engage financial advisors they should not be hiring. Advisors who quite often do not have the knowledge and expertise to manage their clients' wealth effectively. Does the person or group investing your money understand how the financial markets and the world's economic climate will impact your nest egg? In this book, you will learn how to ask the right questions to select the best...

Most farmers don't have time to think too far ahead into the future. That's because they're busy attending to the needs of today: producing high-quality products, overseeing employees, and managing the mind-boggling number of details that go into owning a farm. If they do think about the future, it's usually in terms of new government regulations, availability and price of land or quota for future expansion, or even what the weather will be like. The truly long-term decisions, like when to sell or transition your farm (not to mention how to do it), are mentally filed away under the heading,...