United Kingdom: Wealth & Asset Management

On 14 July 2026, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published CP 26/27, setting out proposals to overhaul the regulatory remuneration framework for solo-regulated firms.

High-value pensions often represent one of the most significant assets in a marriage, yet they can be overlooked during divorce proceedings. Understanding how pension wealth is valued, divided, and treated in financial settlements is essential for high-net-worth individuals, business owners, and senior executives to ensure fair outcomes and protect long-term financial security.

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.

Every financial remedy case in the family Courts starts with the same foundation – full and frank disclosure. This is the duty of each party to provide a complete, truthful and continuing account of their financial position. It is not a technicality. It is the very mechanism by which the Court, or the parties through negotiation, can determine what a fair settlement looks like.

Investment managers are navigating a transformed fundraising landscape where success depends on more than performance metrics. This analysis examines how product innovation, customised solutions, and alternative capital-raising strategies are reshaping the relationship between managers and investors in an increasingly competitive environment.

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

The order in which investment returns occur during retirement can determine whether your portfolio lasts 30 years or runs dry in 20, even when the average return remains identical. Two retirees starting with the same capital and withdrawal rate may face vastly different outcomes depending solely on whether market downturns strike early or late in their retirement journey. This mathematical reality, known as sequencing risk, represents one of the most underappreciated threats to retirement security.

Protectors are persons, or a group of persons, who are given certain powers under a trust deed in trust structures. These fiduciaries often act as a brake on the power of trustees to exercise certain powers.

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