Beckett Private Wealth - Our Extended Team

A team approach to professional wealth management

The RBC Wealth Management Services team works closely with us to provide strategies to help reduce your taxes, plan for your retirement and protect your legacy.

With over 250 highly accredited tax, legal and financial professionals, the industry-leading RBC Wealth Management Services team helps us provide the integrated wealth management solutions you would normally only expect to find at a family office acting for Canada's wealthiest families.

From comprehensive financial plans to guidance on complex tax and legal issues, this team of highly skilled specialists helps your Investment Advisors create an integrated family wealth management strategy, which can be implemented in coordination with your existing tax and legal advisors.

The team’s areas of expertise include:

Retirement planning: Helping you meet your retirement income goals and maximize your after-tax retirement income
Financial planning: Creating a comprehensive strategy to help you stay on track to meeting your financial and life goals
Taxation: Implementing strategies to help reduce your family’s tax burden
Business ownership planning: Helping you effectively transition from your business while reducing taxes and maximizing retirement assets
Estate and trusts: Efficiently transferring your wealth to the next generation
Insurance solutions: Providing financial security, tax reduction, enhanced retirement income and legacy protection
Charitable giving: Helping you maximize your charitable legacy

Our Parters

Shannon Williams

Estate and Trust Advisor, RBC Royal Trust

An Estate and Trust Advisor for the Southwestern Ontario region, Shannon brings more than 14 years of financial services experience to her work with individuals, families and businesses. Her depth of experience, coupled with her professionalism and dedication to client service, serves her well when dealing with the complexities of estate settlement.

Shannon understands that the role of executor is a difficult one with sometimes overwhelming responsibilities. She takes the time to make sure that clients are aware of the complete range of estate and trust resources offered by RBC.

Focused on executor services, she helps executors to identify where RBC can help to lift the burden of an executorship, whether in a simple administrative capacity like helping with specific tasks, or in a more comprehensive manner like carrying out the entire estate settlement process on their behalf

A graduate of Sheridan College with an advanced diploma in Business Administration – Finance, and a graduate certificate in financial planning, Shannon has continued to deepen her knowledge and expertise with key industry designations such as the Certified Financial Planning (CFP), MTI Estate and Trust Professional, and Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP).

As a highly skilled Estate and Trust Advisor, Shannon can discuss estate settlement and administration services, trustee services, trust structures, and other specialized services offered through RBC Royal Trust throughout Canada. She can also provide tailored solutions to help clients carry out their many executor duties and can help to expedite the settlement process, and maximize the estate’s value through knowledgeable handling of estate and tax issues.

Suzanne Schultz, CPA, CA, CFP, CLU

Vice-President & Estate Planning Specialist, RBC Wealth Management Financial Services Inc.

Suzanne's focus is to protect and enhance family and business wealth. She is a trusted professional known for expert wealth management advice utilizing advanced, insurance-based tax and estate planning solutions.

Prior to RBC, Suzanne built her career at a major accounting firm and a boutique tax and estate planning firm. Along with professional designations, she has completed the CICA's In-Depth Tax Course. She was featured as an expert on BNN and HGTV's House Poor and has contributed to the Globe and Mail, National Post and co-authored 78 Tax Tips for Canadians for Dummies.

Suzanne uses her in-depth technical knowledge to carefully understand what can complicate your unique financial situation and collaborates with your other professionals to uncover where you might be exposed to excessive taxes and risk. This planning is essential for business owners, professionals, executives and those with charitable goals.