Corporate Johnson Matthey provides a full range of international platinum group metals management services. These include: the operation of client metal accounts, pricing alternatives for buying or selling PGM and arranging delivery of metals to international locations.
In most circumstances, the beneficiaries may well approve a 5% fee to the executor. In many instances however, when contested, the courts will not allow the executor be paid the maximum 5% of the gross aggregate value of the estate.
Some executors are surprised to learn that an executor can be paid for the estate administration work that the executor does. Others know about executor compensation but decide not to take it for one reason or another. In a few cases, the Will of the person who died sets out how compensation is to be calculated.