The retirement savings gap between lower income and higher income earners is well known. Providing retirement and investment education to employees has shown to raise contribution levels among lower paid workers, but it’s not enough.
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Google “leadership” and you’ll get over 9.5 billion results, illustrating just how oversaturated the discussion of this topic is. If the subject is so overanalyzed, it’s only because effective leadership is so fundamental to organizational success.
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Much is written on what an individual investor should be looking for in a financial advisor. Less discussed, however, is what advisors should look for in individual investors before accepting them as clients.
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What do Bill Gates, Sting and George Lucas have in common? They plan on giving only a small portion of their vast wealth to their children. Their reason is simple … they place great importance on their children succeeding on their own merits. This leads to an important question: Can wealthy parents raise children with strong values and empathy for those less fortunate amid vast personal wealth?
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Inflation is a tax that hurts all income earners. For lower income workers, higher costs mean very difficult tradeoffs that have an impact on everyday living. For higher income earners, it may have less of an impact of their standard of living, but higher expenses can erode the ability to save sufficiently for future goals, like retirement. There are a number of ways individuals and families can respond to rising prices and mitigate their harmful impact.
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