1) The Brits are even less likely to create a will than Americans are. Also of note:
Portuguese aristocrat Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral da Camara made 70 strangers picked from a phone book his beneficiaries.
2) What your heirs need to know about life insurance (alternatively: life insurance, a primer)
3) John D. Rockefeller might have been worth over $660 Billion (in 2007 dollars) at the time of his death. That would place his fortune at more than twice the amount of Andrew Carnegie, the next most wealthy American of all time.
4) Emotion in investing (hint: it doesn’t help).
5) And, relatedly, Average is Not Normal.