Estate Planning Services
A coordinated approach to protecting your wealth, your lifestyle and your family's future.
Two Ways We Help Protect Your Estate
Every family is different.
Some clients want to improve the financial structure of their estate by improving tax efficiency, protecting their property, pensions and investments, and ensuring their wealth is structured as efficiently as possible.
Others want to go further by creating a complete legacy framework that also prepares their family, executors and professional advisers for what happens after they are gone.
Estate Architect offers two comprehensive implementation programmes, depending on your objectives.
Financial Engineering™
Building the Financial Foundations of a Stronger Estate in the UK
Financial Engineering™ is designed for families whose main priority is improving the financial structure of their estate through a coordinated approach to UK estate planning.
Rather than reviewing your assets separately, we coordinate your property, pensions, investments, business interests and future lifestyle requirements as one connected financial strategy.
The objective is to improve tax efficiency, strengthen protection, preserve flexibility and ensure that any planning remains consistent with the lifestyle you want to enjoy.
It may be suitable if you want to:
Reduce future Inheritance Tax exposure;
Protect your home and investment properties;
Review your pension arrangements;
Improve the tax efficiency of investments and cash;
Coordinate business and property interests;
Protect your retirement income and future lifestyle.
Typical implementation takes approximately three to six months.
Complete Estate Architecture™
Protecting Your Family Wealth for Generations
Complete Estate Architecture™ is our most comprehensive UK estate planning and implementation programme.
It includes everything within Financial Engineering™, together with the complete UK Legacy Governance™ framework.
It is designed for families who want more than financial and tax planning. It helps create an estate that is organised, coordinated and easier for their family to understand and administer in the future.
The objective is to reduce avoidable confusion, administrative delays, missing information, family disagreement and the practical difficulties that frequently arise after death or incapacity.
Typical implementation takes approximately six to twelve months.
Estate Architect provides a coordinated approach to UK estate planning. Rather than replacing your existing solicitor, accountant, financial adviser or other specialists, we help bring the different parts of your estate together through one central point of coordination.
Our role is to organise the overall estate planning and implementation process, explore appropriate options and coordinate with authorised or qualified professionals where regulated financial, legal or specialist tax advice is required.
The 9 Things You Pay Us For
There are nine things we do that most families simply cannot coordinate themselves.
Your estate may involve pensions, investments, property, businesses, tax, trusts and several different professional advisers.
Someone has to bring all of that together.
That's the role of Estate Architect: coordinating your estate planning and implementation.
And if you're wondering, “Why can't my existing advisers do this?”, ask yourself a simple question:
If your existing arrangements had already solved these problems, why are you here looking for a solution?
Individual advisers are specialists in their own fields.
An Estate Architect has a different responsibility: to look across the entire estate, identify what needs to change, assemble the right specialists, evaluate the options and lead the implementation until everything works together.
There are nine things we do that many families find difficult to coordinate themselves.
Which Programme Is Right for You?
Choosing the Right Estate Planning Programme
Financial Engineering™ focuses on the financial structure of your estate, including inheritance tax efficiency, property, pensions, investments, business interests and protecting your future lifestyle.
Complete Estate Architecture™ includes Financial Engineering™ and extends the planning into family governance, probate preparation, HMRC preparedness, estate organisation and long-term family continuity.
Estate Architect provides educational research and analysis relating to inheritance tax and estate planning concepts for UK residents. We do not provide regulated investment, tax, or legal advice and are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Where regulated advice is required, introductions may be made to authorised professionals.
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