Joint assets from Louis XIV to The Simpsons
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Meet London’s longest-serving private bankers
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Devo-max for the English will sink Ed Miliband
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Access for all: the scheme helping disadvantaged students into top universities
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Scotland’s No is good for Britain’s banks
The Union may have been saved but David Cameron is waking up to a bad political headache this grey and…
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William Cash reports from Edinburgh on political and financial reaction to the Scottish independence referendum The Union may have been…
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Family, history, economy and landscape all vote No to independence
The last time I got up at 5.30am to walk the bleak, grey stone streets of a country on the…
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NHS head urges tax breaks for companies tackling obesity
The head of the NHS has announced proposals to halt ‘the slow-motion car crash’ of obesity – including potential tax…
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Why are the government killing trusts?
The third in a series of consultations by HMRC on simplifying the calculation of inheritance tax (IHT) charges for trusts…
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Dying without a will is never ideal, but it may be getting less problematic
The Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act 2014 comes into force on 1 October 2014, and while there has been very…
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Families inheriting large business stakes can make terrible mistakes
Owner-managers and shareholders in private companies spend their lives working hard to build a business, usually intending to pass the…
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Everything Greece’s digital entrepreneurs touch turns to gold
So there I was last year, having dinner at the Grande Bretagne, the most prestigious hotel in Athens. Alexandra Vovolini,…
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How to manage a successful family business succession
What is going on in the crowded heads of the queens and kings around the world? In the past eighteen…
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Clusterbucks – how to make money from the South East’s science and technology clusters
It’s in Cambridge, but not of Cambridge. Or is it of Cambridge but not in Cambridge? The Hauser Forum, ‘a…
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