inheritance

Financial planning

Over half of inheritors lack ongoing adviser relationship

Despite younger generations representing the largest group of potential inheritors, CoreData has discovered less than half of beneficiaries have professional advice to na...

Financial planning

Preventing client exodus amid great wealth transfer

With next-generation heirs unlikely to retain their family’s financial advisers after receiving an inheritance, Capgemini has explored how firms can work with younger gen...

Financial planning

Real estate reigns supreme among wealth inheritors

Fidelity finds next-gen investors are increasingly open to seeking financial advice to plan for an impending wealth transfer, as they mull over future investments in real...

Funds management

Inherited wealth outpaces self-made billionaires: UBS

The intergenerational wealth transfer is in full swing with the number of billionaires who have inherited their money outpacing those who are self-made for the first time...

Financial planning

Australians favour families’ retirement over inheritance

Amid aged care funding discussions, new research reveals 73 per cent of Australians would be willing to forego an inheritance to let older family members enjoy a comforta...

Financial planning

Millennials to see $68t inheritance windfall

Some $68 trillion is set to be passed on by the baby boomer generation in inheritance with the millennial recipients reporting they will most likely put it towards their ...