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A life insurance trust is an irrevocable, non-amendable trust which is both the owner and beneficiary of one or more life insurance policies. [1] Upon the death of the insured, the trustee invests the insurance proceeds and administers the trust for one or more beneficiaries.
Trusts and fiduciary duties matter when property is managed by one person for another's benefit. Most trust money, which is invested by financial institutions around the City's Royal Exchange, [1] comes from people saving for retirement. [2] In 2011, UK pension funds held over £1 trillion of assets, and unit trusts held £583.8 billion. [3]
A Discounted Gift Trust (DGT) is a type of UK trust arrangement usually set up in connection with an investment in either an onshore or offshore investment bond (insurance bond). It allows the gifting of a lump sum into a trust whilst retaining a lifelong 'income' from that money (technically withdrawals of capital), with the overarching aim of ...
Protective trust: Here the terminology is different between the UK and the USA: In the UK, a protective trust is a life interest that terminates upon the happening of a specified event; such as the bankruptcy of the beneficiary, or any attempt by an individual to dispose of their interest. They have become comparatively rare.
Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations) is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of an insured person.
Trust becomes a relevant property trust (see below) upon the beneficiary attaining 18 (therefore a maximum exit charge of 7/10ths of 6% = 4.2% where the beneficiary becomes entitled at 25). Immediate post-death interest An interest-in-possession trust, created by a will and taking effect immediately upon the death.
The creation of express trusts in English law must involve four elements for the trust to be valid: capacity, certainty, constitution and formality. Capacity refers to the settlor's ability to create a trust in the first place; generally speaking, anyone capable of holding property can create a trust. There are exceptions for statutory bodies ...
The Trustee Act 2000 (c. 29) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that regulates the duties of trustees in English trust law.Reform in these areas had been advised as early as 1982, and finally came about through the Trustee Bill 2000, based on the Law Commission's 1999 report "Trustees' Powers and Duties", which was introduced to the House of Lords in January 2000.