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Later Life Financial Planning

Centurion Chartered Financial Planners are dedicated to putting your clients’ best interests first. Our specialist later life financial planning team provides independent, expert advice on care fees, equity release, inheritance tax, and trust management, supported by SOLLA accreditation and membership of the Equity Release Council.

Our dedicated later life financial planning specialists work with individuals, families, and fiduciaries, including attorneys, deputies and trustees, to navigate the complex financial decisions that arise in later life.  Whether you need advice on funding long-term care, equity release, or inheritance tax planning, our team has the specialist qualifications and independence to help.

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Later Life: Our Services

Our Initial Meeting With You

We offer a free, without obligation, meeting to understand the issues and offer some initial thoughts.

Our later life financial planning team provides independent advice across all areas of later life planning, including:

  • Investment advice
  • Care fees Funding advice
  • Inheritance Tax mitigation
  • Benefits advice
  • Cash flow modelling

Later Life: Our Specialist Support

Care

Our dedicated Later Life Team are able to provide expert independent advice with regards to the how to fund care, whether this is the use of existing assets or the use of an immediate needs annuity or a combination.

All members of our team hold SOLLA accreditation, independently awarded by the Society of Later Life Advisers to confirm specialist expertise in care fees funding advice. Centurion has one of the largest numbers of SOLLA-accredited advisers of any independent financial planning firm in the country, making us uniquely well placed to advise on the full range of care funding options.

Equity Release

Our independent Financial Planning specialists have extensive experience in equity release, whether it’s for inheritance tax (IHT) planning, boosting retirement income, or to pay for care in the home. As members of the Equity Release Council (ERC), our dedicated Later Life team adheres to the highest industry standards, ensuring expert guidance and peace of mind.

Trusts

We are experienced in the operation of all types of trust and understand the duties and responsibilities of trustees. We can assist trustees in everything from opening a bank account to the investment of the trust capital.

Care Fees – Our Free Guide

Centurion specialises in advising people in later life, their families & Attorneys or Deputies acting on their behalf, about the best way to plan for & meet the long-term costs of care.

Our straight-talking Care Fees guide for individuals in England and Wales is a great place to start. We have also included a summary of the current State Benefit & Care Funding Rate for 2023/2024.

Care Fees Guide

We openly share our insight, and one of our most popular brochures is our Care Fees Guide. You can download a copy using the button below, or click here to read our flipbook version of the guide online.

Our Later Life Financial Planning Experts

Our Later Life team brings together some of the most highly accredited specialists in later life financial planning in the UK. SOLLA accredited, ERC members, and STEP qualified, they work collaboratively to provide the depth of expertise this area demands.

Here is the team of experts who specialise in this service. You can view our entire team using the button below.

Jon Stevens

Chartered Financial Planning Director
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Trevor Durham

Chartered Financial Planner
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Sean McCabe

Chartered Financial Planner
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What our clients say

We have been clients since November 2019. Our personal advisor is Mr Ian Avery, who we have dealt with in this capacity for a number of years, and is someone we hold in the highest regard. He always takes time to listen properly to us, and has an excellent understanding of our situation and requirements. We have always been given an in depth insight into our situation and options and the investment solutions he has recommended have always been explained and presented in a way we find easy to understand and follow. We have no hesitation in recommending both Ian Avery and the firm as providers of excellent service in all respects.

A Client

As a client of Centurion Chartered Financial Planners for over 9 years, I have always found them to be helpful, innovative and security conscious. James, my investments administrator, clearly has a good understanding of my plans and the schedule of associated actions, alerting me whenever I have a task to complete.

Nic

Client

As a client Of Centurion for a number of years we are more than satisfied that our financial future is in a safe pair of hands with the advice we have been given. In particular Dave Robinson is a very experienced financial advisor and his great knowledge makes him one of the leaders in all aspects of financial planning.

Mr & Mrs PG

Clients

Want to speak with a specialist financial planner?

Our team of chartered financial planners offers free initial consultations. Get in touch to be matched with the right adviser for your circumstances.

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