Wealth Resilient — beyond your lifetime

Of the seven C’s of resilience, two outlive you: Contribution and Connection. Estate planning is how your wealth keeps contributing — to the people, places and causes you choose — long after you’ve stopped keeping tabs on your pot.

Nobody enjoys thinking about this subject. So let’s reframe it: estate planning isn’t about death. It’s about making the lives of the people you love simpler, safer and better at the hardest possible moment — and making sure the wealth you spent a lifetime building goes where you intend, rather than where the default settings send it. And the default settings, if you’re a UK domicile, have quietly turned against you. Three forces are converging.