As a young adult moving from college to your first real job and your own apartment, it's time to start adulting and being responsible for your own financial life, insurance coverage, and building your wealth. Here are a few items and easy steps to take that can help make sure you’re ready to succeed in the adult world.
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Both your physical health and your financial well-being are connected to good habits and hard work. While good habits can help prevent negative health events, nothing is guaranteed. It’s important to have plans in place to mitigate the stress that can result from a change in your physical or mental condition. Along with addressing your long-term care insurance, there are other steps to take to incorporate health into your wealth plan and prepare for the unexpected.
Losing a loved one can be very difficult. Yet, as an executor, spouse, or family member, you need to take steps to ensure that your loved one's financial affairs are properly settled as part of the family’s end-of-life planning. To help with the process, this step-by-step guide outlines the key tasks, including selecting an executor, considering the need for an attorney, managing online bills and paperwork, and planning for the future. A checklist is also provided to help you collect key personal and family financial information.
Money conversations can be difficult, and yet they are necessary. FOX Chief Learning Officer Mindy Kalinowski Earley is joined by Amy Zehnder and Cindy Coe as they discuss financial education using an engaging, gamified approach. Using the FOX Family Learning Handbook, and Amy and Cindy’s new book Courageous Money, Your Adventure Through Money National Park as a guide, we’ll discuss money relationships, financial planning and the implications of growing up with wealth and how that influences many of our adult behaviors.
You know the value of encouraging children to learn and practice the basics of money management. And at age 11 or 12, it may be the right time to start a conversation about investing, including how it’s different from saving. Creating opportunities to teach your kids these basic investing principles, and then helping put those principles into practice, can be an important step toward their eventual financial independence.
When it comes to international travel, high-net-worth individuals and their families can be at a particular risk: They have the danger of kidnapping and extortion, threats to their physical safety, and a hit to finances. The challenges have also multiplied since COVID, presenting not only health risks to travelers but political instability unseen in many years. This new reality in travel points to understanding how to insure a lifestyle.
Many young adults are looking to increase their knowledge when it comes to managing their inherited wealth. After all, wealth can be a complicated topic—and figuring out what to do with it can be an overwhelming experience. With that in mind, this guide is designed to answer their questions and concerns on the issues related to money, including offering best practices for managing their wealth.
The past two years have tested even the most resilient families and family-held businesses. Balancing domestic obligations with managing companies virtually is stressful even on the best of days. But when employee relationships include family relationships, workforce dynamics take on a whole other level of complexity. Add a global pandemic on top, and family-held businesses find they now need to support their workforce’s mental health in addition to maintaining financial sustainability.
Whether knowledge is shared around the dinner table or in a boardroom, starting family member education early puts a family office in a strong position to strengthen the family’s legacy. While the education program would likely depend on family characteristics, there are three topics that should be part of the curriculum: basic financial literacy, security and privacy, and the lessons and legend on how the family built its wealth.
FOX’s Chief Learning Officer, Mindy Kalinowski Earley, explains how and why family education is an essential component that supports family cohesion and the transfer of wealth and legacy through generations. During this session she walks viewers through the newly released FOX Family Learning Handbook, filled with a roadmap of tools that will assist leaders in addressing common family education challenges as well as strategies to solve them. View the Family Learning Handbook.