When it comes to planning for the future, both retirement planning and estate planning are equally important. While the former will ensure that you have enough money to last your non-working years, the latter will ensure that your money goes to its rightful inheritors. Retirement accounts like an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), a 401(k) retirement ...

The typical notion of succeeding in life is by earning more money. Most people spend their entire lives chasing after money-making opportunities, working hard, saving and investing to amass a bigger corpus. Whether it is school or college, the end goal is normally to land up in a high paying job and be rich. Money ...

Accumulating wealth and building a business can take years of rigorous hard work. Hence, taking concrete steps to safeguard your wealth and business from the changing times, evolving laws, and the notions and conflicts of future generations, is imperative. Over the years, the importance of estate and succession planning has come to the forefront. According ...

A popular notion, that is often misunderstood, is that trusts are only for the rich. The reality is that a trust is helpful to people of all economic backgrounds. A trust is a legal arrangement that allows a person (the grantor) to transfer their assets, including cash, investments, properties, etc. to a private fund. This ...

Most people are inclined not to think about their mortality. Hence, they do not consider estate planning, especially writing a will, as an imperative task. Moreover, writing a will is often regarded as complicated, irrelevant, and most of all ‘a thing of the rich’. As per a 2020 Estate Planning and Wills survey conducted by ...

Parenting is both a joy and an ocean of responsibilities. Parents constantly worry about the well-being of their child, in their presence as well as when they are no longer around. Estate planning is one important measure to ensure the well-being of your children in case of your demise, incapacity, or disablement. Such situations massively ...

With a pandemic affecting the entire globe, many people have started second-guessing their decisions, investments, and strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic has also made people question the health care system and their chances of survival amidst the chaos and falling infrastructures. While a cure for the virus is being tested in labs beyond anybody’s control, the ...

The outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has infused a sense of vulnerability, especially among those who have not yet planned for the distribution of their estate. An estate can consist of assets like cash, clothes, jewellery, vehicles, residential property, insurance, etc., along with accounts established for retirement, investment, and savings. The management of the ...

People make savings and investments keeping in mind the needs of their families. Most of the time, one generation is diligent and resourceful to turn their savings into heritage for the upcoming generations. There are several instances where people are still enjoying the earnings from their forefathers’ investments.  However, as someone looking to build a ...

Estate planning is a broad concept encompassing financial planning and related aspects. As important as it should be, most people tend to exclude it from their financial planning. There are also some people who underestimate the size and value of their estate and do not give their estate plan the attention it deserves. Estate planning ...