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Building trust and long term value: How advisers can find the right balance in their clients' investment journey
Join us as we discuss how advisers can help to guide clients through volatility with a view to more longer-term thinking in today’s investment landscape.
How MGTS Downing Fox Funds could help advisers mitigate the risk of overexposure to the 'MAG 7'
As more funds are moving towards passive index strategies, advisers run the risk of over exposing their client's portfolios to an increasingly concentrated handful of US tech stocks. Find out how MGTS Downing Fox Funds can help to rebalance portfolios.
Glossary of Terms: Defined Returns
Explore our glossary of terms and definitions for our active defined returns fund to help you navigate the terminology around our latest product.
Why are IHT receipts increasing year-on-year?
Learn why IHT receipts have been steadily increasing year on year, with recent figures revealing an upward trend.
The Tax Advantage of Fund of Funds: Avoid triggering a CGT tax liability.
Learn how a fund of funds could be the smarter choice for personal CGT limits by removing the unexpected CGT tax charges faced in the MPS structure.
True Defence: Helping to protect your clients against market volatility
Learn from Simon Evan-Cook how his defence component could protect your clients against market volatility by holding assets with a proven ability to defend when equities fall.
How an active management allocation in your client’s portfolio can help mitigate the risk brewing in your CIP
Watch Simon Evan-Cook discuss the ways active investment managers can protect central investment portfolios a concentrated focus on mega-caps.
Cutting complexity and instability from your CIP with MGTS Downing Fox Funds
Learn how MGTS Downing Fox Funds was designed with advisers in mind.
Why choose MGTS Downing Fox Funds?
Learn how MGTS Downing Fox Funds has been designed specifically for financial advisers, with a view to cutting complexity, instability and cost from your central investment propositions
The Budget Lowdown: Opportunities and tax planning for financial advisers
Following the Government’s much-anticipated Autumn Budget, we understand that you or your clients may have questions about the announced changes and their impact.
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CPD course: Gifting
Take our CPD accredited Gifting course to broaden your understanding of Gifting as an inheritance tax solution and how it could benefit your clients.
IHT planning with deeds of variation
Join our experts as they discuss deeds of variation and how they may be used in the context of estate planning.
Inheritance Tax (IHT) glossary of terms UK
Explore our glossary of key Inheritance Tax (IHT) terms and definitions. Understand essential IHT terminology to navigate inheritance tax with confidence and ease.
Fund of funds: A smarter choice for personal CGT limits
Learn how funds of funds are well suited to the lower personal Capital Gains Tax (CGT) free allowance
BR basics series: Qualifying holding periods and Replacement Relief
It is important to understand the qualifying holding periods in the context of IHT planning because this will determine qualification of Business Relief qualifying assets.
BR basics series: The Nil Rate Band
It is important to understand the Nil Rate Band in the context of Inheritance Tax planning (IHT), because no IHT is payable unless an estate value exceeds this threshold.
BR basics series: Spousal Exemption
It is important to understand the Spousal Exemption in the context of Inheritance Tax (IHT) planning because it can impact when that planning is and is not needed.
CPD course: Business Relief advanced
Take our CPD accredited Business Relief (BR) course to understand more complex rules, reliefs and scenarios when it comes to Business Relief as an estate planning solution for your client.
Business Relief and Trusts
Understand an example of how Business Relief can be used to compliment a Trust in order to help mitigate an IHT liability
Two year qualifying holding period and successive transfers
Understand how exemptions such as Successive Transfers and Quick Succession Relief can interact with Business Relief.
Adviser questions series: Putting Business Relief investments into a Discretionary Trust
What IFA’s have been asking me this month: Can my client put their Business Relief investments into a Discretionary Trust to mitigate IHT liability when their spouse passes on their estate to their children?
Understanding Quick Succession Relief (QSR)
Join Downing's Nick Priest as he discusses qualifying periods and successive transfers, the difference in qualifying and non-qualifying assets and Quick Succession Relief (QSR).
The Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB)
Join Downing's Nick Priest as he discusses maximising entitlement IHT reliefs and exemptions by understanding the interaction of Business Relief BR assets with RNRB.
Spousal Exemption in practice
Join Downing's Nick Priest as he discusses the two year qualifying holding period and Spousal Exemption and the role it plays in assets qualifying for Business Relief (BR).
The fourteen-year rule explained
Join our experts as they discuss the fourteen-year rule and explain the relationship between transfers made within the last seven years before death, and those made seven years after.
The order of gifting
Join our experts as they discuss the order of gifting and why it's important when it comes to estate planning, and much more.
The golden years: Tax planning for clients approaching retirement
Join our experts as we discuss, how to create appropriate income strategies that consider an all-asset approach and much more.
Matching tax effective estate planning solutions to client needs
Join our experts as they discuss the wide range of potential client aspirations in relation to estate planning and much more.
Your guide to Business Relief
A useful guide to share with your clients in order for them to better understand Business Relief (BR), why it was established, and how it can be used as a form of estate planning to potentially reduce your Inheritance Tax bill.
CPD course: Business Relief fundamentals
Take our CPD accredited Business Relief (BR) course to broaden your understanding of BR as an inheritance tax solution and how it could benefit your clients.
Your guide to Inheritance Tax and estate planning
A useful guide to share with your clients in order for them to better understand Inheritance Tax (IHT), who it applies to, and some of the solutions that are available when it comes to estate planning.
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Explore our simple online CPD courses and get a CPD certification on completion. For bespoke and in-person CPD training sessions delivered by our in-house experts, please get in touch below.
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