Trusts, A Pandemic-Proof Solution?

It is fair to say that 2020 and 2021 will linger long in the collective memory, if only because most of us had no prior experience of life under lockdown restrictions. Pandemics are not particularly new, though.

Several plagues hit Elizabethan England in the late 16th and early 17th Centuries and William Shakespeare supposedly made best use of his time under quarantine during the plague of 1606 to write his masterpiece, King Lear. The historic proof of this causal link is thin but nevertheless, the play enunciates several universal and timeless truths about the fragility of human relationships which will resonate with post-pandemic trust practitioners over 400 years later. In particular, Gloucester's terse remark: