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Understanding the Dimensions of Your Wealth
Understanding the Dimensions of Your Wealth
At Stephan Independent Advisory our goal is to help you understand your family’s finances in a clearer manner.
We use a logical, straightforward framework to help you demystify your wealth, and understand how you can use it to achieve your financial goals.
This framework describes the delineation of your wealth based on its intended use, and helps you separate the essential, non-essential and aspirational elements of your finances.
These quadrants make up your Dimensions of Wealth framework, and enable us to understand and allocate your wealth appropriately, in ways that are designed to meet your financial goals.
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This is wealth that’s acquired by your family through business dealings. It might be through annual income, a family business, or from business ventures of which you have passive ownership. This is traditionally where most of your wealth is generated.
Core wealth is the bulk of your wealth that’s derived from the income generated by yourself or your family business. This quadrant covers the funds required to live comfortably, and to be spent on non-negotiable items and necessities like food, health care, education, and housing expenses. We will use our liabilities-driven investment framework to help you earmark the correct level of capital for this quadrant.
Once your critical, non-negotiable objectives are taken care of within your core wealth quadrant, and the priorities and cost of your lifestyle are accounted for, then surplus funds may be directed elsewhere again. This is your venture wealth quadrant, the high risk speculation ventures that seek an above average return, while taking on greater levels of risk. This may be also be the amount of capital that you wish to earmark to meet your family’s philanthropic desires. It’s important to note that the greater level of return on these investments can in some instances come at the cost of illiquidity, a lack of transparency, reduced diversity, and uncertainty of the outcome—so speculating in this way is only appropriate if all your other needs are conservatively met.
PODCAST
Whether you have significant financial resources and question the meaning of success, or you’re wondering whether being that little bit wealthier will make you happier, this is the podcast for you. The It’s Never About Money site is also a hub for money related blogs and education.
Whether you have significant financial resources and question the meaning of success, or you’re wondering whether being that little bit wealthier will make you happier, this is the podcast for you. The It’s Never About Money site is also a hub for money related blogs and education.
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Professor
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MR JOHN AND DR KIM WATTY
Self funded retirees
