{"id":21079,"date":"2023-12-05T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2023\/12\/05\/9-things-overheard-among-the-wealthy\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:06:42","slug":"say-what-9-things-overheard-among-the-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/say-what-9-things-overheard-among-the-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What? 9 Things Overheard Among the Wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/844546616\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/12\/Ear_Listening_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/12\/Ear_Listening_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<h2>1. Let\u2019s be frank: \u201cWe are all 1 percenters here.\u201d <\/h2>\n<p>We were island hopping on a cruise on a smaller ship with about 75 passengers. It was easy to get to know people, with people getting relaxed after a few drinks. Someone leaned over to me and said: \u201cWe are all 1 percenters here.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b>Say what?<\/b> This goal is easier to achieve than you might imagine. According to Kiplinger, to be in the top 1% in the United States in 2022, you needed $10,815,000 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/personal-finance\/605075\/are-you-rich#:~:text=Profit%20and%20prosper%20with%20the%20best%20of%20expert%20advice%20%2D%20straight,The%20top%205%25%20had%20%241%2C030%2C000.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>net worth<\/u><\/a>. The top 2% needed $2,472,000 and the top 5% $1,030,000. I did not correct her, saying I did not belong to the club, but many financial advisors are close, if not actual members. <\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: Adobe Stock<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Let\u2019s be frank: \u201cWe are all 1 percenters here.\u201d We were island hopping on a cruise on a smaller ship with about 75 passengers. It was easy to get to know people, with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/say-what-9-things-overheard-among-the-wealthy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}