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Publication Date: August 2, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0132350114 | ISBN-13: 978-0132350112

Never has it been more important to read Wealth:  Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It.  More of us have created more wealth today than ever before; managing our retirement assets is increasingly our own responsibility; and America is bracing for the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history. Added to this are the recent financial scandals which have left us confused about who to trust for good investment and wealth management advice.  And because most advisors are specialists, the critical task of integrating the varied aspects of wealth management falls on our shoulders.  Written by Stuart Lucas, an experienced investment professional, Carnation Company heir, and now manager of his family’s fortune, Wealth:

 

•           Helps you to ntegrate the financial and family aspects of wealth management into an actionable, coherent whole;

•           Provides the tools and information you need to take charge of your wealth, so that your advisors and your money are working toward achieving your goals;

•           Addresses family relationships and values, preparing your children for affluence, the motives of advisors, spending, philanthropy, taxes, estate planning, investment strategies, and more.

 

In short, Wealth is the definitive guide to optimizing your financial future.  The lessons of Wealth apply whether you have $100,000 or $100,000,000, whether your goal is to safeguard assets to last your lifetime or to create a financial legacy that will continue for generations.

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Wealth: those who have it want to keep it, but what's the best way to ensure it doesn't run dry? Lucas is ideally suited to answer the question. A Harvard Business School graduate who's worked at wealth management firms, and a fourth-generation heir of E.A. Stuart, the founder of the Carnation Company, Lucas counsels readers who have, or are planning to have, at least a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank. His book teaches them to manage their wealth so it grows, or is at least maintained, for as long as they want, whether that's one lifetime or several generations. Lucas focuses principally on investing decisions, spending decisions (like whether to engage in philanthropy) and emotional issues. He provides a good balance of in-depth financial guidance and tips on negotiating financial decisions in the family. Though the subject is dry, Lucas keeps the book interesting by using examples taken from his own family's experience with fortune, a tactic that lends both credibility and intimacy to his advice. With its frequent plunges into the minutiae of investment options, this book is definitely not light reading. It is, however, a helpful guidebook for those faced with the task of growing, protecting, spending and sharing a large amount of cash. (Mar.)
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Newsweek, March 20, 2006 issue - Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It by Stuart E. Lucas Congratulations! You've just come into some cash. But what to do next? With $1 trillion per year expected to pass from one generation of Americans to another over the next decade, it's a question more people than ever are facing. Writing from the perspective of one who has managed wealth for clients, as well as received it (he's an heir of Carnation Foods' founder), Lucas shows step by step how to set investment goals that match your needs and values, pick the right advisers, manage taxes and avoid the pitfalls that shrink fortunes and fracture relationships.

—John David Sparks, Newsweek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall (August 2, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132350114
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132350112
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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Stuart E. Lucas
Stuart Lucas is the author of the highly-acclaimed book: Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It and Share It, published in Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. Stuart has lived a double life, both as a member of one of America's wealthy families and as a senior executive in prestigious investment and wealth management firms. Sought by the media for his wealth management expertise and advice, he has been featured by CNBC, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Worth, and the Christian Science Monitor among others.

An accomplished speaker and educator, he designed and teaches the Private Wealth Management executive education program for the Chicago Booth School of Business, held in Chicago and in Madrid. He is the author of numerous articles on wealth management.

Stuart is the chairman and founder of Wealth Strategist Partners LLC, a provider of wealth management educational and consulting services to individuals and families. As a fourth-generation heir of E.A. Stuart, founder of the Carnation Company, he also co-manages his family's investment office.

Stuart has a long-standing commitment to public service that complements his work with families. He sits on the boards of the National Public Radio (Emeritus) and the Stuart Foundation. He graduated from Dartmouth College (BA), Harvard Business School (MBA), and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is married and has three children.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
With more than 25 years' experience managing other people's money, his personal finances and his family's wealth, Stuart Lucas shares his secrets for building and protecting wealth.

Lucas, a fourth-generation heir to the Carnation fortune, is an accomplished wealth management advisor. In Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It and Share It, he offers a coherent plan that integrates the vital components of a wealth management strategy.

Departing from the money management classic process, he offers a unique eight-point framework.

1. Take charge and do it early.

2. Ally family and business interests around wealth-building goals and strategies.

3. Create a culture of accountability.

4. Capitalize on your family's combined resources.

5. Delegate, enable and respect independence.

6. Diversify but focus.

7. When possible, err on the side of simplicity.

8. Develop future family leaders with strong wealth management skills.

Lucas says he filters every decision he makes, whether it involves choosing an investment manager, thinking about tax strategy or setting family goals through the prism of these principles.

His discussion equips even the most sophisticated of financial families with an essential, but workable, reference point for their own financial processes.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Everyone dreams of financial ease. It turns out that living with ease takes a great deal of work, dsicipline, and planning. We all hope that we will be able to accumulate enough financial resources to not only take care of our old age, but to provide some things for our children. If our dreams are ambitious we want to accumulate enough resources to change the trajectory of our family's ensuing generations.

We have all heard sad stories of people who attain sudden wealth and how it ends up destroying their lives. Other fortunes that have taken a lifetime of toil to build are quickly lost through any number of mistakes. More than a few entrepreneurs who have shown brilliance in building their company have demonstrated clumsiness in managing their personal wealth. Much of this is due to inexperience and a complete lack of a financial education.

Fortunately, the path of the wealthy has been trod by many and what works is well known. The trick the newly wealthy person has is to become well informed without having to learn about all possible financial mistakes from personal experience. This wonderful book provides a very fine, if not comprehensive, outline of what building, protecting, and sharing wealth means. The author knows from personal experience because he is one of the members of the family that benefited from the Carnation sale to Nestlè and he is also a financial advisor for a living, both for clients and his family.

I particularly like the way the author emphasizes the importance of family with its values and structure in making any plan work successfully. If the family doesn't have a way to plan and work together, then it is really not likely the idea of multi-generational wealth planning will work.

The principles Lucas puts forward in this book are purposely kept simple and present general principles rather than specialized techniques. He puts forward several basic models as frameworks for approaching wealth and I think they are quite good. Each has an approach to investing, risk, and spending based upon the desired outcome. For example, you might not have kids and want your last dollar spent at your funeral. That is different from someone who wants to live off their income from their wealth and give the capital in tact to the next generation. And that is different than someone who wants each member of the next generation to have the same starting wealth in life as the previous generation.

Once the family values are known and the financial goals are set, Lucas takes us into various considerations for reaching those goals through financial management. Obviously, there are an infinite number of possible investment strategies and some are likely to criticize this book because they agree with some specific judgments Lucas makes. This would be an incorrect assessment of the value of this book. The importance of the book is getting a good understanding of what needs to be understood about wealth and capital management rather than any specific recommendation. However, I personally like Lucas' approach.

Finally, he discusses strategies for donating wealth as you see fit and for funding specific things for your descendents such as education, health care, and housing. The book also has a very useful and humorous appendix on the vocabulary of wealth management.

Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in understanding family wealth. A more important topic than most realize until it becomes a crisis. Read this book ahead of time and think about these ideas as you create the wealth and you will be much better off.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This is mainly about asset management. With the plethora of pieces put out on how to "make wealth," here is advice on how to maintain and preserve it. How assets are managed affects the other aspects of people's lives. "Wealth: Grow it, Protect it, Share it, Spend it," is written for a small audience. But due to coming demographical changes this audience may increase (albeit slightly) in the coming decades.

Lucas's work and efforts in this book will help those who need it. This author was willing to share his positive approach, experience, and expertise with the public. He was born to money, being a descendant and heir of the carnation company.

This is also a book from a financial manager who has experience and is currently involved in several organizations. The focus is for those in wealthy families understandably, with the orientation obviously toward families with significant amounts of assets. This will likely become a more common field of expertise in the coming years to some to degree, and this book doesn't come from an elitist perspective.

Some of the focus is to keep what one already has and safely maintain it, allowing it to grow. In short, don't blow it, nor make mistakes that lead to pain later in life. When it comes to sizable assets and the numerous options of managing and investing them, there can be, and often is - disagreements and disputes within a family - over asset allocation.

As for Lucas, he's basically been managing the funds that were

acquired by the 1985 sale of his family's business (Carnation) to Nestle. Looking at an average inflation rate of say, 3.2% , if someone "diversifies," and consistently monitors their assets they should have no problem getting about, or more than, 5% above the average inflation rate. In addition to looking at computer screens and viewing pie charts and bar graphs, he allocates the rest of his time "serving" on various boards and foundations. He comes across as very down-to-Earth.

His 8 point plan is one of common points we hear today: diversify, delegate, keep it simple etc., This is told by many advisers and planners. But to Lucas's credit he does go into the fine details. Tax planning and looking at long-term goals are also delved into. Of course it's critically important to choose a highly skilled and competent planner(s).

This can be a useful book for those that it applies to. For those that come across assets, we must be reminded that a large percentage of the American public is financially illiterate. How many inheritances, earned capital gains, and hard earned assets have been not only mishandled by the owners themselves, but misused by the investment planner and trustee whose job it was to safeguard them. This is an important book that is very useful.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great Book for those who come into a windfall!
This is a terrific book for someone who comes into a windfall of money, like an inheritance. Most people who have never had to manage large sums of money, who inherit a sizable... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Aimee Elizabeth
wealth for the family
This book is very thorough, but I thought it dealt too much in family wealth for wealthy people and not enough for personal wealth. The title does not reflect this.
Published on October 5, 2009 by L. Weidner
Effective albeit plodding guidebook on wealth management
Author Stuart Lucas is an heir to the Carnation family fortune, so he knows a little something about wealth. Read more
Published on November 1, 2008 by Kevin Quinley
Good for the Basics
Worthwhile so long as you skim past the biographical prose and get to the basic nuggets of financial planning offered. Read more
Published on May 19, 2008 by Brian Petula
Stuart's life lessons.
Stuart has laid out a valuable book for all who will come into an inheritance. There are many lessons, and examples that can be a road map to what your family should do when this... Read more
Published on April 1, 2008 by Bryan S. Wood
Good Overview of How One Wealthy Family Manages its Money
In "Wealth," Lucas gives a good overview of how his family manages its money. His family is a little different than most, in that it had a liquidity event that led to about $1... Read more
Published on July 23, 2007 by David Pod
Wealth management
Overall the book provides a good overview on the topic of wealth management. It may also be useful to refer to while chosing a wealth manager. Read more
Published on March 30, 2007 by D. Modi
Savvy advice for managing major money
This is one of the best books yet written on the subject of personal financial management. The author, Stuart E. Lucas, is heir to one of the biggest family fortunes in America. Read more
Published on March 13, 2007 by Rolf Dobelli
A Longer Term Perspective
Stuart Lucas's book makes one appreciate the differences in viewpoint between planning for the financial future of a couple versus many generations of a family. Read more
Published on December 10, 2006 by Dale C. Maley
Investors don't plan to fail...they fail to plan
Author Stuart E. Lucas is financially savvy, a superb communicator and a very decent human being. His book, "Wealth; grow it, protect it, spend it, and share it," is an important... Read more
Published on August 5, 2006 by Bert Ruiz
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