An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

Re:An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% by taa on Monday January 16, 2012 @01:44AM (#3469652)

A very interesting article indeed. Not much new, though. I am curious, though .. many co-founders with very successful exits make the top 0.05% or 0.01% in terms of networth, but they're new money. They're not part of the 0.01% closed circle. What happens to them, usually? Are they accepted into the 0.01% circle once they've made enough money to afford it, or are they treated like a wealthier bottom half of the top 1%?

And for the wealthy people who have pledged 50%+ of their wealth to charity - where do they fall in all this classification?

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Re:An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% by moocow01 on Monday January 16, 2012 @02:10AM (#3469723)

I don't have any statistics to back up my points but I would think the following would be the case...

With the exception of really tremendous exits, let say a pretty successful cofounder gets between .5 million and 5 million (I'm making these numbers up but Id assume these are pretty reasonable guesses for a majority of moderately successful exits). So if thats the case you have a nice chunk of net worth but after an exit you may not have much cash flow to keep up with the big hitters who have a tremendous stream of cash coming in consistently.

Im certainly not arguing that the co-founder with the successful exit is in a bad position - just that their cash flow may be comparatively low compared to someone else who has an ongoing "money printing machine" so to say.

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