How three men playing foosball started an end of life firm

Digital assets platform for advisers

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An end of life planning firm, founded by three men who met playing table football, is working with IFAs to roll out a digital locker to assist client beneficiaries.

Kinherit, run by life insurance specialist and former IFA Ben Mason, restructuring adviser Richard Thomson, and data security expert Tom King, helps protect assets and ensure client's final wishes are carried out. The trio developed online vault Kinvault late last year, which stores client's valuable information from banking to insurance, simplifying the inheritance process. Kinherit chief executive Ben Mason said Kinvault would help prevent billions of pounds in lost assets because companies did not know who to pay it out to. "Because I know how IFAs work, we developed a handover ...

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