What Makes A Wealth Manager An Elite Wealth Manager? Probably Not What You Think

We find that the affluent want to work with the best professionals in all areas of their lives—especially when it comes to the areas of personal and (for entrepreneurs) business financial management. One type of advisor who has the potential to be extremely beneficial to your financial life is an elite wealth manager. As you […]

It’s time to address the financial literacy problem. Here’s how

The percentage of American adults with strong financial literacy—the ability to understand various financial-related concepts and put them to use—has fallen to historically low levels in recent years. One example: Just 34 percent of adults showed high levels of financial literacy in 2018—down from 42 percent nine years earlier—based on a financial literacy test offered […]

Avoiding Unpleasant Surprises-or-worse with your life insurance

Life insurance can potentially play an important, even prominent, role in your wealth planning efforts. But you’ve got to be careful when using life insurance. Because of the somewhat esoteric and obscure nature of some types of life insurance, it’s possible to buy the “wrong” life insurance policy for your needs—or implement life insurance-based wealth […]

Rules of the rich: seven steps toward serious wealth

What drives successful, affluent people to keep growing their wealth? Often, the assumption is greed—they want more simply because they want to own and control more assets and resources. But in general, we find that the pursuit of greater and greater wealth is motivated by a handful of key goals that give people a life […]