Estate planning a 'huge' advice opportunity as stealth taxes bite

‘Biggest area for planners’

Jenna Brown
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Estate planning is the biggest advice opportunity of the moment and is a “threat to your business if you are not doing it”, according to Octopus Investments.

Speaking at PA360 North on 8 December, executive business growth manager Nick Bird told adviser delegates estate planning was an area where planners could make a big difference to higher-value clients. He explained many diligent and careful savers could be caught out by inheritance tax (IHT) as frozen allowances - which he described as "stealth taxes" - would be in place until at least 2026. "Estate planning is one planning area that will make a big difference. This is the biggest area for planners. "Estate planning is a huge planning opportunity - or a threat to your business if y...

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