Business Continuity for Family and Non-Family Business

Business continuity is particularly important for the leaders of family enterprises. This is because when a family business is at risk, automatically the family legacy also will get affected. While many family businesses are now taking the time to implement more crisis management plans, there are chances where many of them can ignore the fundamental of business continuity risks that a family business can face: the inevitability of ownership and leadership succession.

Learning Outcome

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the different business structures in Malaysia and explain which business structures and ownership suitable for business continuity
2. Understand and analyze the problems faced by business owners and their heirs when a business owner exits the business due to death, total permanent disability, comatose, disappearance or mental incapacity.
3. Able to determine which business continuity plan is suitable for the business owners – a buy-sell arrangement, family business succession trust or a family business foundation.
4. Able to explain the type of business continuity plan to be adopted for the business owners – a buy-sell arrangement, family business succession trust or a family business foundation.
5. Understand and present the advantages and disadvantages of the different business continuity plan using a buy-sell arrangement, family business succession trust or a family business foundation.

Learning Outline

Facilitator

Profile of Mr. Azhar Iskandar Bin Hew

En. Azhar Iskandar Hew is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Rockwills Trustee Berhad and holds the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of London. He is a Director of Rockwills Advisory Services Sdn Bhd. He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

He has more than 18 years’ experience in the estate planning industry as a will & trust specialist, trainer and conference speaker. Over the years he has trained more than 10,000 people primarily from leading financial institutions and life insurance companies as well as financial planners in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

He is approved by Securities Industry Development Centre (SIDC) as a facilitator to conduct estate planning training and is an Estate Planning Trainer for Certified Financial Planning (CFP) as well as a facilitator for estate planning courses organized by The Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia (FIMM).

His current scope of work includes advising on legal aspects, compliance and advisory matters regarding Estate Planning and Private Trust services. He was a regular article contributor to Smart Investor and Malaysian Business on the areas of Estate Planning and Private Trust.

Terms & Conditions

• Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis, only 30 seats available.
• Participants need to sit in for both sessions in order to accumulate the points.
• Confirmation is subject to payment before the workshop.
• FPAM reserves the right to amend the program, speaker, date, venue, etc, without prior notice.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How long will each digital programme take?

Each digital programme is the equivalent of a day’s CE Workshop training for approximately 8 hours. With the lunch break in between, the digital programme will usually take place for 6 hours.

2. Can I attend only half sessions of the training?

Yes, you may. However, you will not be granted full points from respective parties.

3. Which forms of payment can I use?

We accept payment by credit card (VISA / MasterCard / AMERICAN EXPRESS / Discover), by FPX (Affin Bank, Alliance Bank, AmBank, Bank Islam, Bank Muamalat, Bank Rakyat, BSN, CIMB Clicks, Hong Leong Bank, HSBC Bank, KFH, Maybank2E, Maybank2U, OCBC Bank, Public Bank, RHB Bank, Standard Chartered, UOB Bank).

4. How secure is shopping? Is my data protected?

Your data will be handled confidentially and encrypted with SSL (Secure-Socket-Layer) secure server software. The encrypted information of your order, your name, address, credit card or bank details cannot be read by any third party. Credit card payments will also be verified through the 3D secure procedure.

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