Unicorn partners up for IHT-exempt investment service

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Unicorn Asset Management has teamed up with discretionary fund manager WM Capital Management to launch an investment service built to provide inheritance tax (IHT) exemption to investors.

The Unicorn AIM Inheritance Tax Portfolio Service, which will offer both a growth and income option, will invest in a "diversified" portfolio of 25 to 40 AIM stocks that qualify for both Business Property Relief (BPR) and as ISA investments. Unicorn said ever-increasing numbers of investors are looking for estate planning solutions within an ISA framework. Unicorn, established in 2000, is historically a UK small cap and Alternative Investment Market investment business. Unicorn Asset Management director Chris Hutchinson said: "Conducting much of our research in house delivers impor...

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