Many of us create a will to ensure our inheritance is distributed to the specified beneficiaries per our wishes, should anything happen to us. We believe that crafting a will provides peace of mind for us and our loved ones, but there are certain reasons why a will...
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DGLegacy® Family Account: Transparency for Your Family Inheritance
Many of us struggle to ensure transparency for our digital and financial assets, even with our closest family members. But when we add to the picture the assets that our family members possess, be it parents or our partner, the task of keeping track of them becomes...
How a big global bank “forgot” to pay out millions of dollars from the accounts of deceased people.
And we thought that big global banks provided financial security … A very interesting case revealed by Bloomberg demonstrates that even big global banks tend to “forget” to transfer the money they manage into the estates of deceased clients. The case is about...
Can estate planning still protect your digital assets?
Estate planning and Wills have been used for years to protect people’s assets and ensure they’ll be inherited by the designated heirs. With the advent of digital estate planning services and online wills, we would expect this protection to be even greater, especially...
What happens to life insurance with no beneficiary?
Many of us take out life insurance, wishing to protect our loved ones if we die. It’s not uncommon for people to have even multiple life insurances. While this might sound strange at first glance, the case for this is quite straightforward. You take out your first...
The hidden risk for angel investors
Angel investments on the rise With the low and often even negative interest rates on bank deposits, and the modest returns on mutual funds, especially when we take into consideration inflation rates and fund and brokerage fees, it’s not surprising that many people are...
What happens to your crypto if you die
What is crypto Cryptocurrencies have been around for more than a decade now and it’s clear they’re here to stay. Without getting into too much detail on the history of cryptocurrency and the different types there are - you can read more on both topics and more in our...
The three main steps for financial protection
One of the main goals that many people set for themselves is to better handle their finances. This goal is becoming more and more difficult to achieve, as people usually have multiple assets in various systems and platforms – bank accounts, insurance policies, credit...
The biggest danger for your crypto
Cryptocurrency - the silver bullet When cryptocurrency came into this world in 2008/2009 - with the whitepaper on the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, written by a person under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, it made a very serious claim; that it was the answer to...
How to protect your crypto
“Crypto investments don’t need protection.” In this article, we won’t get into basic definitions. There’s a crypto inheritance article we’ve published on cryptocurrencies in the context of inheritance that provides answers to questions such as ‘What are...