Estate planning

Welcome to Professional Adviser's as-it-happened coverage of the summer Budget 2015 - with a slant, as always, towards those announcements, issues, outcomes and views affecting UK financial advisers...

Five key announcements advisers can expect from George Osborne

Celebrity will mistakes: Three lessons to share with clients

The Chancellor George Osborne is set to confirm an increase in the inheritance tax (IHT) threshold to £1m per couple in this week's Budget.

Ten important questions advisers should be asking

Estate planning lessons from a family farm dispute

Keep it simple to avoid 'nomination nightmare'

Death benefit complexities bring advice opportunity

Standard Life is urging advisers to review their clients' legacy personal pensions to avoid their beneficiaries being forced to buy an annuity when they inherit the pots and avoid potential future negligence claims.

Why expression of wish forms have never been so important