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What is the net worth of CFA candidates or charterholders … defined as financial assets (excluding residence) minus liabilities ? Wud $1.5 million net worth be considered high?
 
Thanks for defining net worth.
Are you looking for the mean, median, mode, minimum, maximum … ?
 
Are you looking for the mean, median, mode, minimum, maximum … ?
Median or mode due to skewness of distribution.
 
lord of pensions and pilsner wrote: Are you looking for the mean, median, mode, minimum, maximum … ?
Median or mode due to skewness of distribution.
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In that case, USD1.5 million is way too low.
If that’s all you’re worth, perhaps the CFA designation isn’t for you.
 
current goal is to hit $1m by 35.
my lifetime goal is to hit top 1% of the us. prolly $10m, which coincidentally is where the estate tax is when married.
 
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Is $1.3 million supposed to be good or bad? I seriously don’t know.
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The average american earns something like 1.6 over a lifetime. So that would be high.
 
ohai wrote:
Is $1.3 million supposed to be good or bad? I seriously don’t know.
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It totally depends on age. If you’re asking how much wealth does the average Charterholder die with, or have in late retirement, for sure it would be multiples of $1.3M. I’ll guess … $4M. But that’s median. A few will be $1B, and many will be $10-$100M. But I think there’s a long tail of folks who just plowed away making $200k their whole life, and spent most of it on family stuff, but have a $1-2M house.
For 30-something Charterholders globally, I’ll guess net worth is under $250k US. Not everyone is a NYC I Banker.
 
And both are very significant parts of people’s net worth. Usually the most significant.
 
^The actual answer: It’s a huge outlier for the average person so it skews results. You could almost think of a person’s net worth being like a company’s Quick Ratio. You take cash and marketable securities (and accounts receivable, but that just makes the metaphor more confusing) and divide it by short term liabilities. A house wouldn’t fall into either the nominator or denominator. It’s illiquid so not immediately marketable. Or, it’s a long-term liability.
By removing it entirely, you get a pretty clear picture of that person’s current financial well-being.
 
If I have a $20 million house and $1 million cash, that is a lot better than having $1 million without the house.
 
ohai wrote:
If I have a $20 million house and $1 million cash, that is a lot better than having $1 million without the house.
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..and $25 M mortgage liability. Net worth = negative. If you don’t have a family, rather hold cash and liquid assets and rent a house or an apartment. You may also easy transfer your wealth and run away from current location if necessary.
 
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