Written by Wilfred Ling Wednesday, 07 September 2011
As a practicing practitioner, one of the joy in providing professional financial planning services is the opportunity to work and meet many different people with wide ranging backgrounds and needs. I always find it challenging (positively) when I meet cases that I never done before. I wish I can share the kind of cases I have done but this would unfortunately breach confidentiality if I would share details. However, one type of case which I am always keen to do is to provide financial planning services to those who really cannot help themselves. This will be people with ‘special needs.’
My first exposure to individuals who have special needs was when I was in my late teens. As part of a church fellowship group, a regular activity is to visit a home in which we ‘adopted.’ It was the ......