As an entrepreneur and business owner, you may have dedicated years of your life to building up your company and turning it into an effective generator of wealth. As the years go on, a growing concern is how you can leverage that success to provide for future generations of your family and give them every opportunity you’d wish for them.

Complex legislation around capital gains tax (CGT) and inheritance tax (IHT) can make it difficult for you to plan how to pass on your wealth and it sometimes feels impossible to navigate. Our experts can help you to understand the regulations that affect you and suggest solutions you may not be aware of to minimise your tax liability.

Everyone wants to secure financial freedom for their children and grandchildren. Here are some clients we’ve helped to do that.

Our client was an oil and gas company owner with dividend shares in the business. As a non-domiciled resident, he needed advice on structuring his wealth tax-efficiently and leveraging it for future generations.

Investec acted as a facilitator to pull together the different threads of the client’s financial situation, working with other parties, such as accountants. One of our recommendations was that shares held by individuals were restructured into a family investment company of £2.5 million.

The client’s wealth is now held more tax-efficiently, with a solution that allows for reinvestment of dividend income and long-term succession. This is an effective means of leveraging the client’s business success into intergenerational wealth, benefitting his family for decades to come. The client will be returning for future financial planning and has recommended us to a contact in a similar situation.

“My financial situation was extremely complex, but Investec took the time to gain a full understanding of it and were able to recommend a fitting solution. I’m grateful for the peace of mind that, not only will my children have the protection of financial security, but my family will benefit from it for generations.”

- Client, Investec Guildford

Our client, a business owner who has been a client of ours for over 30 years, wanted to make a large gift to her daughter and sought our advice on the most effective way to do so.

We considered and discussed the full range of options for raising capital, e.g.
 

• Using capital she’d received from her business
• Remortgaging a buy-to-let property
• Drawing money from her investment portfolio

The client was delighted we were able to explore all her options and recommend a solution and will be returning for any future financial planning needs.

“I place enormous value on your advice and consider myself very fortunate to be in such safe, capable hands.”

- Client of Justin Yeldham, Senior Investment Director, Investec Guildford

If you’re an entrepreneur or business owner and you’d like to investigate your options for passing on wealth to your loved ones, we can give you information that takes into account every aspect of your complex financial circumstances.

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