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Private Wealth Partners, Clare Stirzaker and Kyra Motley reflect on the rise in family foundations set up in the last decade, reflecting the changing attitudes towards wealth and growing focus on ‘giving back’ to society to help deal with major geopolitical issues such as combatting climate change.

Private Wealth Partner, Kyra Motley writes for the FT Adviser highlighting how the average inheritance tax bill has hit a record high of £216,000 this year, with more estates being pulled under the scope of the tax.

Private Wealth Partner, Kyra Motley reflects on how the opportunity for high returns from deals continues to attract the ultra-wealthy to private equity, alongside the genuine love to see businesses grow.

Private Wealth Partner, Kyra Motley, comments on how charities are increasingly seeing gifts in Wills as a growth area of income and reasons why it is tax efficient to make charitable gifts in a Will.

In CityAM, Private Wealth Partner, Kyra Motley highlights how female business owners make up an increasingly important part of the British economy and how new figures show that the value of the businesses that they are founding is growing dramatically.

In The Times, Private Wealth Partner, Kyra Motley highlights that despite all the uncertainties created by COVID and Brexit, more wealthy individuals from overseas are taking the opportunity to make their move to the UK, as it remains an attractive location to relocate to and expand their wealth.

In a recent article in The Sunday Times, Partners Geoffrey Todd & Kyra Motley reflect on research showing growing inheritance tax bills by region and highlight how this trends is expected to continue over the next five years, as the Government has announced that the IHT allowance will remain at the current level until 2026.