Julia Garner, CFP®, CLU
Estate Planning Specialist
Opens in your telephone provided application. Opens in your email provided application.Julia Garner is an Estate Planning Specialist with CIBC Wood Gundy. She began her career in insurance 10 years ago with a focus on values-based risk management, helping individuals, families, and businesses protect what is most important to them. Julia is an expert in facilitating conversations around successful wealth transition, business succession and financial security.
Julia graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a major in Finance. She is committed to constantly learning and evolving in advisory services. Julia is a Certified Financial Planner® and Chartered Life Underwriter®. She is experienced in the family enterprise space, having facilitated family meetings, and completed level 1 of the Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA) designation.
Julia and her husband, Mathieu, enjoy spending time in the mountains, travelling, and cooking.
Eric Schenstead, CLU, TEP, CFP®
Estate Planning Specialist
Opens in your telephone provided application. Opens in your email provided application.Eric and his team are pleased to support CIBC’s high net worth clients with attaining their Estate Planning objectives. They bring a wealth of experience, utilizing advanced estate planning strategies and life insurance products, which are applied in uniquely effective ways that support our client’s aims and hopes. The team focuses on our client’s objectives, first defining the purpose for the plan, and then providing solutions and options through a process we describe as “Purpose Driven Planning ~ 1:1”.
Laural McDonald, CFP
Wealth Strategist
Opens in your telephone provided application. Opens in your email provided application.The planning process includes a review of the client's goals and objectives and a summary of their current financial situation. It also addresses one or more of the following areas: capital needs, investment planning, retirement planning, education planning, estate and trust planning, and risk management needs and coverage.
Jamie Golombek, CPA, CA, CFP®, CLU, TEP, FCPA
Managing Director Tax and Estate Planning
Opens in your telephone provided application. Opens in your email provided application.As CIBC’s tax expert, Jamie supports CIBC Wood Gundy investment advisors in delivering integrated financial planning and advisory solutions to our high-net-worth clients. Jamie is quoted frequently in the national media and writes a weekly National Post column called Tax Expert.
Laurie Johnston, B.Comm., PFP, MTI
Senior Trust and Estate Consultant
Opens in your telephone provided application. Opens in your email provided application.Laurie's goal is to provide you and your family with confidence and peace of mind. She and her team offer services as a professional executor, power of attorney for property or trustee. She can also support someone else you appoint for these roles. Effectively administering a trust or acting as an attorney, can require time and an understanding of investments and taxes. Laurie and her team have the expertise to execute or assist others in efficiently executing that role. Laurie has been in the financial services industry since 1999 and with CIBC since 2012.