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Wealth Whispers is Mourant’s periodic newsletter covering matters relating to private wealth. Read our recent back issues below. If you would like to join our mailing list for Wealth Whispers please email us.

Wealth Whispers, January 2008

  • Getting more from your giving
  • An insight into the social reintegration of children with disabilities
  • Issues facing the first time philanthropist
  • Ethical investing
  • Mourant’s own corporate social responsibility approach

Wealth Whispers, September 2007

  • Recent Rulings and Jersey trusts
  • Cash2 goes live
  • Mourant Private Wealth announce Cayman trust capabilities
  • The importance of mediation
  • Foundations - offering new possibilities
  • London breakfast briefing Jersey trusts in the spotlight

Wealth Whispers, May 2007

  • Bergerac’s legacy
  • Euromoney awards
  • The importance of regular tax health checks
  • Mourant joins with leading Cayman law firm and opens law office in New York
  • Unenforceable taxes

Wealth Whispers, January 2007

  • Far-reaching amendment to Jersey’s trusts law
  • Review of 2006: investment risk doesn’t always pay
  • UK residence & domicile rules reviewed: a case study
  • Planning to avoid the unthinkable: Kroll on kidnap
  • Mourants marks its diamond anniversary in 2007
  • Mourant open funds administration office in San Francisco

Wealth Whispers, October 2006

  • Mourant renews focus with sale of share plan business
  • Middle East focus: succession and family governance
  • In the spotlight: trusting your trustee, and the impact of a beneficiary’s divorce
  • Managing Investment Risk
  • Primed and ready: portfolio monitoring
  • Innovation in planned giving
  • Mourant-administered charitable trust funding exciting new initiatives

Wealth Whispers, July 2006

  • Offshore settlements and the 2006 Finance Bill
  • Trustees’ investment responsibilities: beneficiaries come of age
  • Jersey trusts law amendment promises greater flexibility
  • When is a company incorporated outside the UK resident for tax purposes?
  • McFarlane v McFarlane: the judgment and the implications

Wealth Whispers, April 2006

  • Dawsons solicitors on recent high profile divorce cases
  • Goldman Sachs on hedging investment risk using put and call options
  • Awards for Mourant in trust and fund services

Wealth Whispers, December 2005

  • Succession: a hot topic in the Gulf
  • Allen & Overy on UK domicile rules
  • Boodle Hatfield on English pre-nuptial agreements
  • Matheson Ormsby Prentice on changes to Irish tax law

Wealth Whispers, September 2005

  • Alan Binnington on venture philanthropy
  • KPMG on tax-efficient retirement planning in the UK
  • Mourant marketing relationship with Kuwait’s Burgan Bank

Wealth Whispers, June 2005

  • Mourant Private Wealth appoints Anthony Cooke-Yarborough as CEO
  • Mourant opens Dubai office
  • Herbert Smith on sham trusts

Articles

Donation Nation

’Indeed, increasingly like America, real wealth in Britain today is now defined not by how much you earn, how many houses you have, but by how much you are seen to give away.’

An article by Mourant’s Alan Binnington about the emerging trend for "venture philanthropy". Originally published in Annabel’s magazine, June 2005.