Aged Care
Entering the aged care system is often a difficult time for many families. We, or someone we love, face the prospect of a loss of independence. It can all be very scary.
What’s more, the financial aspects of the aged care system are incredibly complex. What fees do you have to pay? When do you have to pay them? To whom do you have to pay them? How does being in residential care affect your Centrelink entitlements? Your super arrangements? Your estate plans?
We can assist you to fully understand your financial situation and the way that this interacts with your aged care. This involves things like:
- Working out the type and quality of care you can afford;
- Working out the costs of this care;
- Arranging to pay your accommodation and care fees that apply;
- Ensuring you maximise your Centrelink pension and any other entitlements;
- Best managing your family home and other significant assets; and
- Simply ensuring that your time in aged care is as financially comfortable as possible.
In the best cases, planning for aged care should start well before the need for aged care arises. The planning should start when your retirement planning starts – aged care is, after all, part of your retirement. And starting the planning process as early as possible lets you also ensure that this planning complements the other elements of your financial plan, such as your estate planning.
That said, it is also never too late for good planning. So, if aged care is already a reality, then get in touch with us and make sure that you make that reality as pleasant and satisfying as possible.
Max Reinhardt
Financial and Mortgage Adviser
Max started in the finance and lending industry in 2000 and specifically financial advice in 2004 after attaining a Bachelor of Economics Honours degree at The University of Sussex, UK before settling in Australia later that year.
Max has never stopped studying as he is always looking at ways he can better assist his clients and has studied many courses in financial advice, lending and technical analysis as he continues to try and stay ahead of his competitors in terms of the knowledge he can share with his clients.
Max has quite a unique philosophy when it comes to investing as he believes the best thing about the market is that you don’t always have to be in it. Contrary to popular belief, his methods have shown that “timing” the market can result in far better results than just “time in” the market.
This has been evidenced with over 100 years of study on the Dow Jones, which has data available dating back to 1910. He has beaten markets significantly during corrections such as the GFC and Covid crash obtaining significant positive returns, whilst markets have fallen between 40-55% approximately. His Facebook page shows a call for the Covid crash 6 months in advance and clients were able to beat the market by circa 85%.
Of course such opportunities do not occur every day, but being able to form read a market does give him an edge over his competitors. His vast technical analysis study and skills can predominantly be credited to the works of W.D. Gann. He is also not afraid to utilise more modern techniques with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence to give him an even bigger advantage.
Max Reinhardt is an authorised representative (301999) of Finchley & Kent Pty Ltd (ABN 50 673 291 079) (AFSL 555169).