Barbara Amsden
Barb is a recovering executor who’s co-managed three estates and consoled others in the sorry throes of executorial duties. She served for years in the salt mines of the financial industry, encountering the weird and wonderful ways of financial institutions, advisors, regulators, policymakers, lawyers, tax professionals, bureaucrats, and government tax authorities. Her experiences with funeral homes, cemeteries, as well as heirs and beneficiaries? Well, some she’d just like to forget. In writing this book, she researched and became addicted to executor stories from the odd to the instructional to the “what were they thinking?!"
Most recently, Barb led a team and co-authored content for Heritage Lower St. Lawrence’s 2022 Governor General Award-winning multi-disciplinary "Live Our Heritage." She’s been published in The Quebec Chronicle Telegraph, Wealth Professional, Canadian Investment Review, Canadian Banker, The Observer, and Irish Banking Review.
Barb has made regulatory submissions to people she thinks should know better, including on how to make estate management and other painful processes much easier. She longs for a simpler life and argues frequently with her husband about who better not die first.
