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Suddenly having to decide what to do with a large amount of wealth can be more stressful than you may expect.

In our experience, we’ve found that those who have recently gained a sudden increase in wealth are often struggling with:

  • A lack of financial knowledge about investment choices
  • Knowing what to do when family or friends request gifts or financial support
  • Understanding the legal, financial and tax implications of their new wealth
  • Dealing with the pressure that comes with managing a large amount of money
  • Identifying whether a purchase is an impulse decision or a good long-term idea
  • Ensuring that their new wealth sustains them for a lifetime 

It can be easy when you’ve received a sudden growth in wealth to be tempted to spend it all at once.  Instead, by waiting on making any big decisions and seeking professional advice on what to do with your windfall, your sudden wealth can be used to help you secure a brighter financial future.

We specialise in helping sudden wealth recipients take a step back from the emotion that comes with unexpectedly having to manage a large amount of wealth and create a roadmap to put your new wealth to work for your long-term prosperity.

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The challenges of sudden wealth

If not handled correctly with expert guidance and support, a sudden increase in wealth could potentially leave you in a situation worse than when before you received your boost in wealth.

Knowing what to do next after receiving a large influx of wealth can be more challenging than you’d first expect.

In our experience helping those who have received an unexpected increase in wealth we’ve found a few common drawbacks, which include:

  • Making impulsive decisions which are based on emotion and not strategy
  • Promising too much of your newfound wealth to your loved ones
  • Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of financial decisions
  • Becoming paralysed into doing nothing by looking for the ‘perfect’ solution
  • Not knowing whether a financial decision you’re considering is smart or not
  • Struggling to control your spending when you have access to a lot more money
  • Investing poorly or rushing into investments without a strategy
  • Being taken advantage of by those who want to benefit from your wealth

The variety of interwoven factors that require attention can make achieving financial success feel more complicated. But you don’t have to manage it alone.  With our expert guidance, you’ll always know what to do next and if a financial decision is the right one for you. 

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How We Support You Through Gaining Sudden Wealth

Set new financial goals

Set new financial goals

With a new financial situation unfolding for you, it’s possible that now things are possible which you previously didn’t anticipate. We help you workshop and navigate your new goals, prioritising what is important to you while keeping your short, medium, and long-term needs in view.

This can also include helping you work through how much you want to help others with your new found wealth.

Implement an investment strategy

Your tailored investment strategy

Understand the different investment options available to you and decide on the right ones for you, based on your goals. This might include investment strategies for passive income streams, or to create long-term wealth from your lump-sum.
We also assist you to determine your risk tolerance and investment timeline in light of your sudden influx of wealth.

Navigate the complexities of payouts

Navigate the complexities of payouts

We help you navigate the complexities of insurance and compensation payouts, walking you through any details that you might struggle with around receiving your payout. In certain circumstances, we can help ensure your entitlements are maximised.

Manage finances after injury

Manage finances after injury

We help you put sudden wealth to work after injury, so you can adapt to changes in income or unexpected expenses, and work towards creating the lifestyle you want even during recovery.
This can also include planning for future medical and care needs, including ongoing treatment, rehabilitation, or long-term care, ensuring your finances are ready for any scenario, and the money put aside for these purposes will last.

Understand tax implications

Understand tax implications

Understand tax implications related to sudden wealth, insurance payouts, or changes in income, so you make decisions that preserve your financial position.
Learn about any new tax obligations you may now have due to your newfound wealth

Protect your assets and income

Protect your assets and income

Protect your assets and income with the right insurance and risk management strategies, helping safeguard your wealth and provide stability for your family.

Plan for long-term prosperity

Plan for long-term prosperity

We help you create a plan for long-term prosperity. This can include retirement planning, including early retirement (FIRE). We also work with you to create a solid estate and legacy plan, to protect your estate or loved ones when the time comes.

Set new financial goals

With a new financial situation unfolding for you, it’s possible that now things are possible which you previously didn’t anticipate. We help you workshop and navigate your new goals, prioritising what is important to you while keeping your short, medium, and long-term needs in view.

This can also include helping you work through how much you want to help others with your new found wealth.

Your tailored investment strategy

Understand the different investment options available to you and decide on the right ones for you, based on your goals. This might include investment strategies for passive income streams, or to create long-term wealth from your lump-sum.
We also assist you to determine your risk tolerance and investment timeline in light of your sudden influx of wealth.

Navigate the complexities of payouts

We help you navigate the complexities of insurance and compensation payouts, walking you through any details that you might struggle with around receiving your payout. In certain circumstances, we can help ensure your entitlements are maximised.

Manage finances after injury

We help you put sudden wealth to work after injury, so you can adapt to changes in income or unexpected expenses, and work towards creating the lifestyle you want even during recovery.
This can also include planning for future medical and care needs, including ongoing treatment, rehabilitation, or long-term care, ensuring your finances are ready for any scenario, and the money put aside for these purposes will last.

Understand tax implications

Understand tax implications related to sudden wealth, insurance payouts, or changes in income, so you make decisions that preserve your financial position.
Learn about any new tax obligations you may now have due to your newfound wealth

Protect your assets and income

Protect your assets and income with the right insurance and risk management strategies, helping safeguard your wealth and provide stability for your family.

Plan for long-term prosperity

We help you create a plan for long-term prosperity. This can include retirement planning, including early retirement (FIRE). We also work with you to create a solid estate and legacy plan, to protect your estate or loved ones when the time comes.

A few of the clients we’ve helped

This client was unexpectedly in a bad car accident and ended up in a wheelchair as a result, leaving him permanently disabled.

While his injuries prevented him from ever working again, he received a TPD insurance payout from his multiple superannuation funds, leaving him with a sudden growth in wealth of around half a million.

We worked with him to ensure that his wealth would be used to provide him with a comfortable income for the rest of his life.

This client and her family unexpectedly lost their mother two weeks after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
While she was grieving, this client then received an inheritance of approximately $500,000 which she had no idea what to do with.
Knowing she wanted to use her inheritance to ensure that she and her partner were able to have the financial freedom to enjoy the life she wanted, she reached out to us for help.
We ensured that her inheritance was being invested in a way that would allow her to have the solid base she needed to overcome her loss and move forward knowing that her financial future was secure.

This client had spent the majority of her life trusting her ex-husband to manage every aspect of their financial world.

She came to us after she received a lump sum of approximately $2 million as the settlement for her divorce.

Having no knowledge of how she may best use this settlement to achieve a secure financial future, she found herself overwhelmed and worried about what her future may look like.

We helped ease her worries by making sure her settlement was invested across a diverse range of assets through a family trust, ensuring she’ll be able to draw a comfortable income for the rest of her life.

With her financial future secure, she was able to purchase a home and embrace the next chapter in her life to the fullest while knowing that she was taken care of financially.

This client suffered serious injuries from a car accident at the age of 24 that disrupted all of her future plans.

While she was coming to grips with her injuries, she received a personal insurance payout of approximately $1.2 million which she struggled to know what to do with.

We placed her insurance payout in an account-based pension through an SMSF, enabling her to draw a comfortable yearly income. We made sure this was done within the 90 days of her receiving her payout required to avoid unnecessary tax charges that would have severely diminished her income.

We also uncovered an unclaimed Total & Permanent Disability policy in an unused super account, which we worked with her to successfully claim in order to provide her with a well-diversified investment portfolio.

Now that her financial future was taken care of, she was able to focus on recovering and has recently started training to become a yoga teacher.

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