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Kiplinger
Business
Michael Schneider

I'm a Wealth Adviser: This Is How to Prevent Your Heirs From Frittering Away the Family Fortune

A young man celebrates as he throws money around.

It's a sobering statistic: Roughly 90% of family wealth disappears by the third generation. For many families, that means the grandchildren of today's wealth builders may inherit only stories, not financial security.

The problem usually isn't poor investment returns or bad estate planning. More often, wealth erodes because of human nature: lack of communication, lack of purpose and lack of preparation.

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