Paying Residential Care Fees

We are experienced in assisting clients finance their care fees, either in preparation for possible care needs in the future, or where fees are required to be paid immediately.

Two of our advisers have passed the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Long Term Care Insurance examination (CF8) as required by the FSA. 

We believe that financing for care fees should not be considered in isolation but that it should be part of a person’s overall estate planning.  Some of the decisions made for care fees funding will also reduce the inheritance tax burden for a person’s beneficiaries.  That is why, as professionally qualified independent financial advisers, we believe we are ideally placed to help you in this important area.

If you would like to have a no-obligation discussion with one of our care fees advisers please contact us on enquiries@arch-fp.co.uk or telephone 01483 204600 and ask for Sarah Bond.

Managing a Residential Care Home

If you are managing a residential care home we would be delighted to hear from you. We can provide you with a leaflet to make available to potential residents explaining our services. This could be especially useful when people are not sure how they might best arrange their affairs to pay your fees.

If there is something that you feel is special about your particular residential care home then we will be happy to consider including a link to your website. Please contact us on enquiries@arch-fp.co.uk or telephone 01483 204600 and ask for Sarah Bond.

If You Must Fear, Don't Fear The Stock Markets ... Fear Inflation

It has been said that we are each separated from any other person on earth on average by six steps (referred to as ‘six degrees of separation’). 

Dr Angela Merkel (she was awarded a doctorate for her thesis on quantum chemistry) is currently the longest serving leader of a G8 country and arguably the most powerful person in Europe and I was only two degrees of separation from her!

If you want to know more about why long term investors need have no fear of the stock markets please refer to the Arch Blog.

Where Next For The Economy?

We have produced a précis of the economic outlook which was expounded by Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's Economic Editor, at the New Model Adviser Conference and Awards which took place in the Lancaster London Hotel on 12th and 13th January.

Stephanie said that this has been an unusual recession and gave examples such as the fact that we have not seen the level of corporate failures as in past recessions.

Stephanie also dealt with what we should look out for in 2012 and what is happening to the Euro.

The Outlook is More Encouraging From Kazakhstan!

If, as investors, we could get a better grip of what is happening in places like Kazakhstan and the way that the needs and desires of peoples like the Kazakhs will drive the world’s economy, we would stop leaving quite so much money in deposit accounts where it is of little use to anyone.  Instead we would invest in companies both here and abroad which can take advantage of the great global advancement in places which, until now, we might have found difficulty in finding them easily on a map.

For more information on this please refer to the Arch Blog.