Apple recently angered a Canadian widow by demanding she produce a court order to obtain her late husband’s Apple ID password. We’ve been down this road before. A person dies without sharing any of their passwords and surviving family...

Keep calm. Four major banks in the U.K. – Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Santander – are developing their own robo advisors aimed at mass-market consumers. According to The Financial Times (subscription required...

Nearly a decade after Leona Helmsley’s death, her estate is still in the news, this time for the outlandish fees sought by its executors...

He's not impressed. | Copyright Andrew Burton, Getty Images The market rout last week pushed every major asset class into negative territory for the one-year trailing period. That fact prompts Capital Spectator's James Picerno to note that...

Are college athletic departments a new growth area for insurance agents? ...

Americana. This weekend Sotheby’s will be auctioning off what it deems the “greatest collections of Americana ever assembled” on Saturday and Sunday in New York. The items are part of a collection assembled by Irvin and Anita Schorsch, the...

For the past several years, estate planners have been in a bit of a tizzy. Starting with the gradual increase in the estate and gift tax exemption amounts during the second Bush administration and continuing in more recent years when...