Ueli Grossniklaus. To give a short answer first: I do not think we know how widespread transgenerational epigenetic inheritance is in any organism. Given this uncertainty, it is surprising how much ...

The number one reason most people want to leave an inheritance is to provide for family members, and it's the most common way money is distributed after death. In some cases, an inheritance can be the ...

“When you inherit investments, you don’t have to pay any capital gains. These are deferred until you sell it, but the trick ...

An inheritance is a gift, not an obligation. Although there are laws as to who will inherit your money if you don’t leave your own instructions, there aren’t any saying you have to leave anything at ...

Inheritance tax has historically been something only the very wealthiest pay, but we can reveal the huge tax bills families could be saddled with by 2030 thanks to a looming raid on pensions. Frozen ...

Our estate at present looks like: house £625,000; cash £40,000; assets £32,000 (cars); debts £32,000 (mortgage and car loan) and pension pot £900,000. If we assume that selling the cars pays off the ...

One of the maddening things about our financial services industry is how slowly it has been innovating to help the growing ranks of the relatively rich and retired. Take equity release mortgages. They ...