One of the maddening things about our financial services industry is how slowly it has been innovating to help the growing ranks of the relatively rich and retired. Take equity release mortgages. They ...

In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

An inheritance tax is levied when a beneficiary inherits assets from the estate of someone who died. There is no federal inheritance tax, but five states currently levy this tax: Kentucky, Maryland, ...

How is the amount of an inheritance advance determined? When advancing an inheritance, companies offer heirs immediate access to their funds by buying a portion of their expected inheritance. It can ...