There has been a “clear increase” in families using life insurance policies to fund future inheritance tax bills ahead of pensions becoming subject to the charge, financial planners have told The i ...

Is the mortgage market turbulence getting you down? Have you got a mortgage-related question you need answering? Email in, and we will get one of our experts to reply. Nick Mendes, mortgage technical ...

So, you’re wondering which programming language is the absolute hardest to learn in 2026? It’s a question that pops up a lot, especially when you see all the new languages coming out. People often ...

Increasing numbers of homes are pushing families into paying inheritance tax. A combination of rising house prices and tax thresholds pushing more estates into the inheritance tax trap – an issue ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Inheritance tax is an expensive problem for an increasing number of families and the situation is about to get worse. From April next year, unspent pension pots are going to be pulled into inheritance ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of ...

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