Inheritance tax changes leave sour taste for family firms
British farmers dominated the initial debate over the Budget’s change to inheritance tax (IHT), but it is all types of family businesses that are impacted with profound implications on succession...
Legal Review 2024: Inheritance tax makeover in 2025
The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget calls time on three decades of a relatively benign inheritance tax treatment of wealth comprised in trading business. Since 1996, 100 per cent business property relief...
Legal Review 2024: Facing the challenge of IHT changes
For decades, agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) have enabled farmers and other businessowners to pass their business to the next generation without any inheritance tax (IHT). ...
Annuities are back in favour, but will it last?
There are many arguments for and against buying an annuity – the crucial thing is to talk it over with an expert There are powerful arguments for and against the...
Why watches are about more than telling the time
The cachet of owning a luxury watch from a top-tier brand, be it Rolex, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin or anything else, is that it serves as a status symbol. Increasingly,...
Family Investment Companies: Another tool in the succession planning arsenal
As we continue to navigate turbulent economic times, many people are lasering in on their succession planning strategy. One option that has grown in popularity is the use of a...
Meme stocks: where adrenaline and dumb money come together
The first and most sensible thing to say about meme stocks is that they have no place in anyone’s pension portfolio. Investing for one’s old age is all about thinking...
Want a fail-safe investment? Time to get real
The stock market in the US is at an all-time high, while the FTSE, according to the Financial Times, beat its 2018 high in February this year. This being the...
AI investment platforms: Get rich quick or too good to be true?
Stock trading scams are hardly new. What is fairly new, though, is the hype around AI trading platforms. Rising public awareness of AI trading bots, allied to promises of infallible...
Beware fiscal drag: the more things stay the same, the more they change
As human beings, we’re hard-wired to fear change. It’s part of why we get so frustrated with a new train timetable, why we hate phone software updates, and why there...