A SLAT is an irrevocable trust that you create for the benefit of your spouse. It is also often used to benefit your children or other beneficiaries. Once you create the SLAT, you can make a gift ...

The Ocean Cleanup’s goal is to tackle the thousand most polluted rivers within 5 years. Slat told CNN that Interceptors will soon head to Vietnam, Thailand, Jamaica and Los Angeles County in the ...

The downside of a SLAT is that if your spouse dies or you divorce, you lose access to the monies. If you gifted money to a SLAT for your spouse and are now having second thoughts about the ...

It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old Boyan Slat. "It's like a vacuum cleaner for the river," Slat said. The Ocean Cleanup is on a ...

For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won ...

So, let’s demystify the latest estate planning catch phase “back end SLAT.” When we’re done it is basically a high grade traditional life insurance trust (that’s easy to understand ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, aims to solve this problem by ridding the ocean of 90% of floating plastic by 2040. But, he adds, “I believe we can do it faster.” ...

Mr. Slat is the founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The world is finally getting serious about plastic pollution. Next week, delegates from U.N. member states will gather in Paris to ...