Tuesday 12 August 2025
12:00pm-1:00pm (AEST)
Up to 1 CPD hour available
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This session will provide participants with the background of elder abuse and up to date case law surrounding not only the landscape of elder abuse but also highlight the role of the adviser in that space. As 1 in 6 older Australians will experience some form of elder abuse, this session is critical for advisers to gain an understanding of the risks being faced by clients along with their trusted advisers.
Anna Hacker
Client Director, Pitcher Partners Advisors
After a career as a lawyer, leading two of Australia’s largest national estate planning teams, Anna is currently a client director within the Family Office team at Pitcher Partners. While studying her combined Bachelor of Arts (Hons)/Law (Hons), Anna studied in Berlin with a German government scholarship to research her thesis topic investigating the language of fear in a series of letters written by Jewish refugees escaping Vienna to Melbourne in 1937. After being admitted as a legal practitioner, she initially focussed on Elder Law, later becoming an accredited specialist in the area of Wills & Estates as well as a member of the Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners. During her time as a legal practitioner, she has focussed on complex estate planning and assisting high net worth individuals to understand their estate planning objectives. Anna also became host of Australian Unity’s popular podcast “What Happens When I Die?” and served as legal consultant on seasons two and three of the ABC’s award-winning television series “Fisk”. In her spare time, Anna is Vice President of the Macleod College school council and is the past president of Probus Women’s Housing Committee, providing low-cost accommodation to elderly women in Melbourne.
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