In a typical equipment trust structure, a company engages the services of a trustee to form and maintain a trust in accordance with local law. The trust then sells or issues “trust certificates” to ...

A trust structure, commonly used for estate planning, can be problematic in certain civil law jurisdictions, such as those in many European countries. Recent acts enacted in Wyoming and New Hampshire ...

Separately, the lifetime gift and estate tax exemption (the amount you can transfer over your lifetime and at death before paying federal estate or gift tax) is scheduled to rise to an ...

Trusts can be an effective way to reduce taxes, shelter assets from creditors, and/or prevent assets from going through the probate process. Trusts are estate-planning tools, and like other ...

First Trust Announces Shareholder Approval of New Investment Sub-Advisory Agreement and “Manager of Managers” Structure for First Trust Smith Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF (FIXD) and First Trust ...