Five Major Wealth Concerns of the Affluent

5 major wealth concerns

A wealth management process that employs a comprehensive approach to understanding your deepest needs,values and goals is essential to achieving all that is important to your family, as well as freeing you from many involved financial concerns. Research shows the financial concerns of successful families tend to fall into five major categories of planning. As you consider these five categories, chances are many of your major wealth concerns fit within this framework

1. Wealth Preservation.

Planning for wealth preservation is twofold. First, is simply not losing a substantial portion of accumulated wealth. Second, is selecting an investment approach most likely to achieve income or legacy goals, depending on personal needs, situations and risk preferences

2. Wealth Enhancement.

Tax planning must mitigate negative tax effects from investment activities, and reduce or shelter tax on money earned or received from other sources—while preserving wealth

3. Wealth Transfer.

Tax planning must mitigate negative tax effects from investment activities, and reduce or shelter tax on money earned or received from other sources—while preserving wealth.

4. Wealth Protection.

Planning here safeguards against catastrophic loss, whether due to creditors, litigants and identity thieves. “Wealth” includes not only your financial assets, such as your home or prized possessions, but also untimely death of you or your loved ones, or the loss of ability to earn an income.

5. Charitable Giving.

This encompasses all planning of charitable goals, such as arranging to donate a portion of your wealth in the most tax-effective way or in a way to make the greatest impact.