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 ...

Different share classes affect investment benefits, such as voting rights and dividend priorities. Mutual funds share classes vary by when and how load fees are charged and can affect long-term costs.

The Government has u-turned on plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth upwards of £1million, raising the threshold to £2.5million instead. The change of heart, which is expected to lift most ...

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The U.S. Navy will get two new battleships, the “largest we've ever built,” sometime in the 2030s, President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 22. Construction of the ships, designated Trump-class ...

Nick Reiner could potentially be stripped of an inheritance left by his parents if he is found guilty of murdering them. The 32-year-old, who faces two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of ...

The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

Nick Reiner was arrested on Dec. 15 in connection to the double homicide of his parents, Rob and Michele BACKGRID; Eric Charbonneau/Getty In the wake of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner's tragic ...

This allows spouses or civil partners to pass on up to £5m in qualifying agricultural or business assets between them before paying inheritance tax, on top of existing allowances. Following the ...

A farmer whose father killed himself the day before the October 2024 budget after weeks of worrying about inheritance tax changes has said the government's climbdown will be "the best Christmas ...

This now-annual tradition — which usually drops in December but was pushed back a month to January — is available for those ...