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40, a bit over half a million, a third housing a tenth liquid, the rest in tax advantaged retirement vehicles.  No debts. I live well though.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

Associate/30s/$6.5-7M if trusts count

Parents in 80s Trust is about 12-14M depending on mkt, property assessments, split between 2, but I'm the executor, and we don't touch it. Transferring it mainly to inheritable Roths and Pensions, as well as RE for the step-up provision. Also there are some silent partner investments I'm not privy to that in a separate LLC under the Trust. 

Standalone, 200k RE, 250K retirement, 35K brokerage, 25K liquid EF, we owe on one car and some student loans. 

 
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nice try elizabeth warren

What side hussles are you hiding?  My accountant/tax lawyer  makes sure I'm squeaky clean.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

Thanks man, in banking i was able to max out with my base, then I was able to backdoor roth a big chunk of the bonuses, with the company match I had like 80k put in retirement after the 2 year stint, new gig has a solid match and a profit-sharing component of my salary that goes direct to retirement pre-tax, so been able to sock a lot away. Need to caveat that I was never in NYC so have been lucky to save a good % of my paychecks with the lower COL.  

 

34 - $1.4mm, roughly $400K retirement, rest taxable brokerage.

Per additional requests: ex-IB, ex-PE, current Corp Strat. Roughly $330K comp. No student loans (full ride), no family money.  

 

Will look forward to updating after this latest run finishes

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around 30 or so. Manager in Corp Fin. ~$325k NW. Roughly equally split between RE, 401k, and cash/liquefiable equities.

Feel pretty good about it- Started negative (student loans). Single income family. NW stagnated for a few years in there as I paid out-of-pocket for my MBA. Now I'm aggressively saving- have doubled my NW in the last year and a half, expect to hit $1m in my mid 30s.

 

25, IB AS1, ~$275k NW. Roughly $125k in personal brokerage / savings, $130k in retirement accounts, and the rest very conservatively estimated as my equity in my car (relatively sought after, low mileage example that doesn't depreciate currently - am a car guy). Frugal by nature but don't really budget. Goal is ~$1mm by 30, which I don't think will be particularly difficult unless I get laid off and can't get a job for some time.

Graduated college in 2021 with $0 debt, about $0-5k in personal savings, and about $15k in retirement accounts (Roth IRA contributions from internships).

 
  • Age: 25M
  • Title: Assoc.
  • NW: $350k
    • 40% retirement
    • 25% equities
    • 5% crypto
    • 30% cash (looking to buy real estate soon)

I should add that I am extremely fortunate to not have any student debt

 

31 / unemployed recent MBA grad / ~20K liquid, ~250K in investments. No debt and I've been very frugal outside of my 2 year MBA program (my expenses are super low).

Before business school, 120K / 300K split (funded my MBA with about ~150K of my own money and another ~$25K from my summer internship).

Not doing terrible and may be getting a sizable liquidation from an investment.

 
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Early-to-mid 30s

~$3mm NW, 2/3 brokerage, 1/3 retirement

All self earned, fully paid off ~$300k between undergrad and MBA loans. Did a number of years IB, picked some good/lucky investments, and had a great outcome/exit after leaving IB. Feel very fortunate and my career is just starting to really take off/inflect.

Congrats

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Story is somewhat what you’d expect. Was pretty frugal throughout IB 20s, especially to pay back loans, but always maxed out 401k, invested extra $, etc. Because of frugality I had enough liquidity to take a few heavily concentrated stock positions that I picked up either pre-COVID or at COVID bottom which ended up taking off (a few tech names, one obscure homebuilder that I snagged at the bottom and I hit 25x on).

 

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