In today’s issue: Landed estates and rural businesses face unworkable inheritance tax reforms, Lords warn. Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview: Nick Marshall, Nicole Marshall, Ayana Hull, Harneys and Tara Parchment, Brit Insurance. Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Wealth Trends: Api Jeyarajah, Nedgroup Investments. Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Trusts, Wills and Estate Disputes: Vicky Olivier, Baker & Partners. Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Crypto & Digital Asset Trends: Dmitry Tokarev, Bron. Art Fair 2026: Zona Maco – Kylie Manning. Cultural philanthropy: UBS presents Melati Suryodarmo. Citywealth Leaders List spotlight. |
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Landed estates and rural businesses face unworkable inheritance tax reforms, Lords warn |
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Public debate has been sharpened in recent months by high-profile commentary, including from Jeremy Clarkson, who has warned that changes to farm taxation are creating a “fog of despair” across the farming industry. A House of Lords report published today shifts that debate away from headline rhetoric and onto a more technical but no less serious question: whether the inheritance tax reforms affecting landed estates and rural businesses are workable at all.
Inheritance tax reforms affecting landed estates and rural businesses are not practically workable in their current form, according to the report, which warns that liquidity pressure, valuation disputes and unrealistic payment deadlines risk forcing asset sales and undermining long-term stewardship. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview:Nick Marshall, Nicole Marshall |
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| I am a Jersey Advocate and Partner in Nicolle Marshall LLP. We are a boutique Jersey law firm specialising in local and international estate planning, trust and company structuring, and business transactions, and Jersey property work. The firm was set up by Clare Nicolle and me in 2024. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview:Ayana Hull, Harneys |
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| I’m head of the Private Wealth & Regulatory practice groups at Harneys in the British Virgin Islands. In this role, I advise clients from private investors and family offices to banks, funds, insurance providers, and corporate service companies on complex commercial and regulatory matters, including structuring investments, regulatory compliance, and navigating BVI law on everything from property acquisition to digital assets. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview:Tara Parchment, Brit Insurance |
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| I’m the Head of Private Clients at Brit Insurance, which is the 5th largest syndicate at Lloyd’s of London – the largest insurance market in the world. We’re a diverse, customer focused organisation specialising in classes such as property, cargo, cyber and healthcare, as well as a growing range of e-trading products. Read more → |
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Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Wealth Trends:Api Jeyarajah, Nedgroup Investments |
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| The global political landscape is increasingly consequential for private wealth managers. Populism, trade fragmentation and a more transactional “America First” stance in Washington are reshaping capital flows, regulation and tax debates are just a few topics. Read more → |
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Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Trusts, Wills and Estate Disputes:Vicky Olivier, Baker & Partners |
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| The most common catalyst is not the existence of a substantive problem, but the failure of process. Families tend to litigate when they lose confidence that the structure provides a fair, transparent or credible mechanism for resolving disagreement internally. Read more → |
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Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Crypto & Digital Asset Trends:Dmitry Tokarev, Bron |
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| I believe the regulatory overhang is largely behind us. I’ve been in crypto for well over a decade, and in the early years almost every conversation started with the same concern: “What if governments ban Bitcoin?” That objection has effectively disappeared. What we do see today is significant macroeconomic turbulence, with inflation being the dominant factor. Read more → |
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| Art Fair 2026: Zona Maco – Kylie Manning
Upcoming next week Feb 4 – Feb 8, 2026 Mexico City Read more → |
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| Cultural philanthropy: UBS presents Melati Suryodarmo
UBS Founding/Lead Partner of ART SG, Southeast Asia’s largest international art fair Read more → |
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| Citywealth Magic Circle Awards 2026 – Online Voting open
Cast your vote now. The online voting counts for ten per cent of the results. Vote now → |
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Citywealth Leaders List spotlightThe Citywealth Leaders List is a user rating directory of the leading individuals in international private client and wealth management. The Leaders List hosts our Top Lists – independent curations of the best professionals in their fields. See below a spotlight on a few of the stellar individuals that make up our directory. |
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| Michael Topley, Head of Sustainable Portfolio Management, Barclays View his profile here. |
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| Natalie Peter, Partner, Blum&Grob View her profile here.
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| Alberto Brazzalotto, Partner, Maisto e Associati View his profile here. |
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