Protect Your Wealth, Secure Your Future
Wealth & Income Protection Advice for Doctors
Unexpected events can disrupt your income—but they don’t have to derail your life goals. At AMA Financial Planning, we help doctors and healthcare professionals safeguard their income, lifestyle, and future with personalised wealth protection strategies.
Meet Your Dedicated Financial Adviser
With over 16 years of specialised experience in the financial planning sector, Briony Gouldthorp is a highly trusted adviser within the Western Australian medical community. Maintaining a 5-star rating on Adviser Ratings, Briony possesses a deep understanding of the unique career pathways, from registrars to senior consultants and private practitioners.
Briony provides clear, conflict-free advice to structure your income protection efficiently, ensuring it aligns perfectly with your career stage and future wealth goals.
Why income protection insurance matters
Income protection pays an ongoing monthly benefit based on a percentage of your income. This cover is essential if you cannot work due to illness or an accident. It helps you continue to pay your mortgage, bills, and everyday expenses so you can focus on recovery rather than finances.
At AMA Financial Planning, we tailor income protection insurance for doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals. Our solutions are designed to support your lifestyle, secure your finances, and fit your career stage.
To obtain a quote or hold a discussion with one of our advisers, please complete the Wealth and Income Protection form below:
At AMA Financial Planning, we are proud to be a PPS Mutual accredited adviser. This gives eligible professionals access to exclusive life insurance products tailored to the needs of medical professionals and other high-income earners.
Whether you are a doctor, dentist, surgeon, or medical professional, your ability to earn an income is your most valuable financial asset. Years of study and hard work have built your career, but illness or injury can quickly disrupt your ability to work and impact your financial stability.
Income protection insurance provides ongoing financial support if you are unable to work as a result of injury or illness. It provides regular monthly payments based on your income, helping you meet your financial responsibilities and focus on recovery without financial pressure.
We specialise in insurance solutions tailored specifically for medical professionals. Our experienced advisers can help ensure your income is protected, developing an insurance solution with policies designed to match your career and financial goals.
At AMA Financial Planning, we are proud to be a PPS Mutual accredited adviser. This gives eligible professionals access to exclusive life insurance products tailored to the needs of medical professionals and other high-income earners.
Complementary Cover for Complete Financial Security
While income protection is your immediate priority, a comprehensive safety net leaves no blind spots in your professional life:- Life Insurance for Long-Tern Protection: Provides a lump-sum payment to safeguard your family, clear large personal debts, and protect your estate in the event of terminal illness or death.
- Total & Permanent Disablement (TPD): Delivers a lump sum if a serious condition permanently ends your medical career, helping you clear practice liabilities, manage medical costs, and adjust your lifestyle long-term.
- Trauma Cover: Offers immediate financial support upon the diagnosis of a specified critical illness (such as cancer or stroke), giving you the freedom to step away from clinical duties without financial stress.
Frequently Asked Questions
We assist clients in addressing their need for life, disability, critical illness and income protection insurance. After determining how much cover you require that is appropriate to your current position and future needs, we can help design and structure a tailored insurance program.
Income Protection is critical, particularly given the significant earnings potential of medical professionals. Income protection cover is designed to replace a portion of your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury. It helps cover living expenses, manage debts, and maintain the standard of living, providing peace of mind and safeguarding your future earnings and your family’s financial security.
The cost of income protection insurance can very significantly and is based on a range of factors, some of which include:
- Your age
- Your gender
- The level of cover in place
- The age of the policy, it’s terms and the insurer
- Whether your policy has any premium loadings
- The structure of the premium itself
To ensure you are paying an income protection that is competitive, for a policy that is well structured and appropriate to your unique needs and preferences as a medical professional, please get in touch with the team at AMA Financial Planning.
Income protection provides regular payments in the event you are unable to work as a result of an accident or illness – even for a short, temporary period. In contrast, Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) cover provides a single lump sum benefit in the event you are permanently unable to work.
The appropriateness of policy terms will depend on your current circumstances, insurance needs and preferences. A waiting period would generally be based on your ability to maintain your current standard of living while you are unable to work, until income protection cover becomes payable. The benefit period may depend on how long you will continue to work, and generate an income for. Common waiting periods are 30,60 and 90 days and benefit periods range from 2 years, 5 years and until age 65 (retiremnet age).
Types of insurance cover, particularly disability and income protection cover, have terms that can differ dramatically, i.e cover may or may not be specific to your ability to work in your own, current role or alternatively, any occupation you are reasonably suited to. It is critical to consider these factors, as well as the underlying definitions of any specific policy, with a qualified adviser.
As a subsidiary of the AMA (WA) Inc, the team at AMA Financial Planning have significant experience in working with members of the medical profession. We are familiar with your unique (and busy) working patterns, income progression and entity structures. This experience and our specialised knowledge of legislative rules and opportunies mean that we are well placed to develop a financial plan very specific to your circumstances, allowing you to achieve your long term goals and objectives.
As with any advice service, we must work through the advice process. Initially, we would meet with you to gain an understanding of your current financial position, goals and objectives. Thereafter, we are in a position to develop an analysis of your insurance needs and refine a protection strategy that takes into account your specific needs and preferences.
PPS Mutual provide select, qualified, adviser’s ‘accredited status’ where they have an established, professional, client base, are members of key industry associations, provide a dedicated client-centric service, have strong industry experience of at least 5 years and a robust business practice infrastructure.
Being accredited with PPS Mutual allows AMA Financial Planning access to a range of insurance offerings that provide policy definitions designed to suit the specific needs of medical and other professionals.
We assist clients in addressing their need for life, disability, critical illness and income protection insurance. After determining how much cover you require that is appropriate to your current position and future needs, we can help design and structure a tailored insurance program.
Income Protection is critical, particularly given the significant earnings potential of medical professionals. Income protection cover is designed to replace a portion of your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury. It helps cover living expenses, manage debts, and maintain the standard of living, providing peace of mind and safeguarding your future earnings and your family’s financial security.
The cost of income protection insurance can very significantly and is based on a range of factors, some of which include:
- Your age
- Your gender
- The level of cover in place
- The age of the policy, it’s terms and the insurer
- Whether your policy has any premium loadings
- The structure of the premium itself
To ensure you are paying an income protection that is competitive, for a policy that is well structured and appropriate to your unique needs and preferences as a medical professional, please get in touch with the team at AMA Financial Planning.
Income protection provides regular payments in the event you are unable to work as a result of an accident or illness – even for a short, temporary period. In contrast, Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) cover provides a single lump sum benefit in the event you are permanently unable to work.
The appropriateness of policy terms will depend on your current circumstances, insurance needs and preferences. A waiting period would generally be based on your ability to maintain your current standard of living while you are unable to work, until income protection cover becomes payable. The benefit period may depend on how long you will continue to work, and generate an income for. Common waiting periods are 30,60 and 90 days and benefit periods range from 2 years, 5 years and until age 65 (retiremnet age).
Types of insurance cover, particularly disability and income protection cover, have terms that can differ dramatically, i.e cover may or may not be specific to your ability to work in your own, current role or alternatively, any occupation you are reasonably suited to. It is critical to consider these factors, as well as the underlying definitions of any specific policy, with a qualified adviser.
As a subsidiary of the AMA (WA) Inc, the team at AMA Financial Planning have significant experience in working with members of the medical profession. We are familiar with your unique (and busy) working patterns, income progression and entity structures. This experience and our specialised knowledge of legislative rules and opportunies mean that we are well placed to develop a financial plan very specific to your circumstances, allowing you to achieve your long term goals and objectives.
As with any advice service, we must work through the advice process. Initially, we would meet with you to gain an understanding of your current financial position, goals and objectives. Thereafter, we are in a position to develop an analysis of your insurance needs and refine a protection strategy that takes into account your specific needs and preferences.
PPS Mutual provide select, qualified, adviser’s ‘accredited status’ where they have an established, professional, client base, are members of key industry associations, provide a dedicated client-centric service, have strong industry experience of at least 5 years and a robust business practice infrastructure.
Being accredited with PPS Mutual allows AMA Financial Planning access to a range of insurance offerings that provide policy definitions designed to suit the specific needs of medical and other professionals.