United Kingdom: Wealth & Asset Management

This article examines recent UK legal developments affecting estate planning and trust structures, including landmark court decisions on trust registration and HMRC challenges, expanded reporting requirements for overseas entities and trusts, and significant changes to Agricultural and Business Property Relief allowances that impact wealth preservation strategies.

Information has become one of the most valuable assets a family office manages, yet many families underestimate the risks associated with their digital footprint. From due diligence databases...

Starting a business is an exciting milestone. Yet while many entrepreneurs focus on their product, service, or big idea, the reality is that building a successful business requires much more than simply generating sales.

Grave goods are objects placed in burials to accompany the dead, and they offer important evidence of how past societies understood death, status, and the afterlife. In Neolithic cultures, such items often included pottery, tools, ornaments, and food offerings, suggesting both practical and symbolic concerns for the deceased

Travers Smith's 5th annual Alternative Insights Summit explored how political upheaval, pension fund reform, and the push toward individual investor access are reshaping the alternative asset management landscape. Industry leaders debated whether UK pension funds can catch up to their Canadian and Australian counterparts, and whether opening private markets to retail investors presents opportunity or unacceptable risk.

As the great wealth transfer sees baby boomers preparing to pass huge volumes of assets to their children, families face a cultural shift in succession planning.

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This weekly update examines the newly enacted Pension Schemes Act 2026 and The Pensions Regulator's latest annual funding statement, which reveals that approximately 90% of defined benefit schemes are now in surplus on a technical provisions basis. The summary also covers emerging evidence on DC consolidation economies of scale, TPR's five-year corporate strategy consultation, and new HMRC guidance on inheritance tax treatment of unused pension pots.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published its 2026 Annual Funding Statement. While targeted at DB schemes undergoing valuations with effective dates between 22 September 2025 and 21 September 2026...