Wealth Games

Are you looking for a fun way to teach your kids about finance? Go to our Wealth Games page and you will find all types of games, from board games to simulations, from family games you can play together to internet challenges played around the world.

Financial Parenting Tools

Sometimes games are not the right answer to teaching your children Financial acumen. Go to our Financial Parenting Tools page and you will find spreadsheets to help teach financial values, budgeting and allowance.

Wealth Articles

• How to Get Rid of Your Boomerang Kid April
• Allowance Calculator Helps Parents Teach and Talk About Money March
• Family Business Calculator Helps Gauge the Financial Future For Your Kids  March
• Chasing Investment Returns -- The $mart $kills Asset Allocation Game  March
• $mart $kills Allowance and Budget Controls (ABCs): March
• Sustainable Portfolio Spend Rates Calculator  March
• The Benefits of Involving Your Children in Philanthropy and Volunteering  Feb.
• New Wealth Resource Portal For Parents, Advisors Feb.
• February Financial Parenting Opportunities Feb. 2011
• New Estate Tax Law: Lottery or Legacy?  Feb. 2011
• Bestselling Book Helps Parents Raise Financially Responsible ChildrenFeb.
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Wealth Statistics

• More than 33% of investors with more than $500,000 in investible assets have lost faith in the “fairness of the market” according to a survey from Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group titled “Winning the Battle for the Wealthy Investor.”
  •  Half expect to delay retirement because of their losses
  •  Of the 29% of respondents who are under 50, more than 25% switched advisors in the past two years (compared with just 7% of baby boomers and older who switched)
  •  33% of the under 50 group plan to leave their advisers in the next year compared with 8% of baby boomers
• China now counts 960,000 individuals with a personal wealth of $1.5 million, up 9.7 percent from the year before, according to the annual Hurun Wealth Report 2011, published by a luxury publishing and events group in Shanghai.
  Luxury sales grew 16% in China in 2009 despite global recession, according to a McKinsey & Co. report titled “Understanding China's Love for Luxury.” 
  •  By 2015, they are expected to reach $27 billion, up from the $12 billion rung up last year.
  •  The 13 million households currently comprising China’s upper middle class (with incomes between the equivalent of  $15,000 to $30,000) will grow to 76 million households in this income range by 2015, according to the same McKinsey study.
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Wealth Blogs

• Wealth Counsel, The Advisors Forum

• Wealth Daily, Investment trends, picks

• The New Wealth Paradigm , Building true wealth and living richly

• Financial Advisor, News and insight for financial advisers, wealth managers and their clients.

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Wealth Calculators

• Intergenerational Equity Calculator Test how your current spend rate and other variables will impact the amount of assets you will be able to leave your children.
• Family Business Growth Calculator Shows how fast your company must grow per year to support your growing family.
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Wealth Events

• 2nd International Wealth Management & Private Banking Russia & CIS April 5-7, Moscow
• Transitions 2011: Family governance, Legacy, Wealth and Generational Change April 7-8 at Grand Bohemian Hotel, Orlando, FL, presented by Family Business Magazine and Stetson U
• The New Normal: The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on Private and Family-Owned Enterprises, April 10, Chicago

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Wealth Networks

• CCC Alliance private network of family offices
  
• Family Business Wiki a publicly available resource for family businesses around the world.
  
• Family Office Association a global membership organization exclusive to single family offices and families of wealth.
  
• Institute for Private Investors The Institute for Private Investors provides innovative and networking resources to families with substantial assets and their advisors.
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