Gail Cohen, Chairman and General Trust Counsel at Fiduciary Trust International, and Lecturer in the Wealth Management program, recently co-authored a report on guidelines for non-professional fiduciaries in managing a trust or estate in Trusts & Estates.
In Trusts & Estates, Cohen provides a checklist for family members, friends, and other non-professionals to follow when they assume the role of fiduciary.
"These considerations fall into four broad categories—carrying out administrative responsibilities; making legal judgments; exercising discretion; and complying with and maximizing tax laws." the article states.
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Gail E. Cohen, Chairman and General Trust Counsel at Fiduciary Trust International, has over 30 years of experience in the area of trusts and estates. She is a member of Fiduciary Trust’s Management and Operating Committees and is also Chair of Fiduciary Trust International of the South.
Sustainability Management professors Steven Cohen, Satyajit Bose, and Guo Dong discuss a new course that brings students to Zhejiang, China, to explore the country’s clean energy economy.
Steven Cohen, Director of the Columbia University Sustainability Management program at SPS, was quoted in a recent Los Angeles Times column examining the future of wind power and renewable energy policy in the United States. (LA Times)
