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Between them, they have four university-aged children, who are blessed with a 90-year-old grandmother who’s alive and well and very generous. The inheritance: Upon her husband’s death 20 years ago, ...

Most analyses of how to end the war in Ukraine focus on the intentions of one man: Russian President Vladimir Putin. This assumes that the person who single-handedly launched the invasion can also ...

The Pensions Commission interim report published last week was a hefty tome, bringing together reams of research and reports ...

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Mango co-owner Jonathan Andic’s contradictory accounts of his father’s fatal fall together with evidence of their rifts over money and inheritance were cited by a Spanish judge in the heir’s €1 ...

Ed Lyon, a pioneering urologist at the University of Chicago, wanted his retirement account to go to his 36 grandchildren. Seven years after his death, his heirs are still fighting to make that happen ...

While trillions of dollars are expected to pass down intergenerationally over the next two decades, young Australians may be overestimating just how much they will receive and when they will get it.

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

Former Labour PM Sir Tony Blair has accused the government of having "no coherent plan" for the country.