Free guide: How to beat the inheritance tax trap

It's the most hated tax of all. How can you beat it? How can you pass on more to your loved ones? Download your free guide and discover:
  • New rules: how Inheritance Tax works and how it's changing
  • Which simple but costly mistake two out of three people make
  • How to potentially spare your estate from IHT without giving anything away
  • How you could pass on your ISA IHT free

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Estates worth £1 million or more paid an average of £470,117 each in IHT (2013/14). Will yours? Download your free guide now to discover how you could potentially protect your estate from a 40% IHT charge.  

A word of caution: the investments described are not for the fainthearted. They invest in small companies, which are by nature riskier than their larger counterparts.

The trade-off is that if you are a high net worth individual or sophisticated investor you could keep more of your wealth out of the taxman's hands. 

This free guide is not advice, but it explains the main facts you need to know, so you can decide if these opportunities are for you. 

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By Alex Davies Founder and Chief Executive – Wealth Club

Alex was a board director at FTSE 100 stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown, where he worked for 15 years. He was responsible for building Hargreaves Lansdown into the biggest direct-to-consumer SIPP provider in the UK with more than 150,000 clients and over £12 billion under management. 

After retiring at age 38 and selling some of his shares, Alex sought tax-efficient ways to invest his money. To his surprise, he found that good-quality services designed to help high net worth and sophisticated investors with non-standard and tax-efficient investments are thin on the ground.

This led to the idea of Wealth Club – a new service for high net worth and sophisticated investors.

The aim is to offer them more compelling and advanced tax-efficient investment opportunities than normally available through mainstream investment platforms and financial advisers.  

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  • I had an annual income of £100,000 or more. This excludes money withdrawn from my pension (except where the withdrawals are used directly for income in retirement).
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  • I am a member of a network or syndicate of business angels and have been so for at least the last six months;
  • I have made more than one investment in an unlisted company in the last two years;
  • I am working, or have worked in the last two years in a professional capacity in the private equity sector, or in the provision of finance for small and medium enterprises;
  • I am currently, or have been in the last two years, a director of a company with an annual turnover of at least £1 million.

I accept that the investments to which the promotions will relate may expose me to a significant risk of losing all of the money or other property invested. I am aware that it is open to me to seek advice from an authorised person who specialises in advising on non-readily realisable securities.