{"id":16030,"date":"2025-06-01T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=16030"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T08:16:20","slug":"the-road-to-the-seven-figure-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=16030","title":{"rendered":"The Road to the \u201cSeven-Figure Club\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> Oxford Club readers love Chief Investment Strategist Alexander Green\u2019s simple and level-headed approach to the markets.<\/p>\n

Below, he discusses one of his favorite topics: the steps that almost anyone can take to join the \u201cSeven-Figure Club.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 James Ogletree, Managing Editor<\/p>\n

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The Federal Reserve has reported that the average net worth of American families now tops $1 million, surging 42% from $749,000 in 2019.<\/p>\n

Inflation rose sharply during this period, too.<\/p>\n

Yet, even after inflation, real average wealth was up 23%, according to the Fed\u2019s Survey of Consumer Finances.<\/p>\n

This is something to celebrate. (Perhaps especially if you\u2019re one of these new millionaires.)<\/p>\n

Money gives you choices \u2013 not least of all the freedom to choose how to live your life.<\/p>\n

Yet the Grinch isn\u2019t just a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss. Many are angry about our nation\u2019s rising wealth.<\/p>\n

Why? Because prosperity creates inequality. And that\u2019s unfair.<\/p>\n

Or is it? Let\u2019s take a closer look at what is happening and why.<\/p>\n

That nation\u2019s average household net worth of more than $1 million is skewed by the relatively small number of multimillionaires and billionaires.<\/p>\n

About 16 million Americans \u2013 just over 12% \u2013 have a net worth that exceeds $1 million. Approximately 8 million families are multimillionaires.<\/p>\n

These households tend to have higher incomes. They generally earn between $150,000 and $250,000 a year.<\/p>\n

Yet millions of families with middle-class incomes have also joined The Seven-Figure Club.<\/p>\n

What are they doing that other middle-class families aren\u2019t?<\/p>\n

They are being smart about money. That means they are paying down high-interest debt, contributing to an IRA or 401(k), building equity in a home, and earning better-than-average returns in the stock market.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years, in particular, Americans accumulated trillions of dollars more than they were on track to save before the pandemic.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 relief and stimulus spending \u2013 along with a government shutdown that prevented them from blowing it \u2013 is one reason.<\/p>\n

Savings increased. Interest rates rose. As a result, the total assets in money market funds recently hit a record of nearly $6 trillion.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s good news. But only if you were a saver.<\/p>\n

Residential real estate continued to rise in value. Also good \u2013 but only if you own a home.<\/p>\n

Stock prices are considerably higher than they were in 2019.<\/p>\n

Still more good news if you\u2019re one of the 61% of Americans who own equities, either directly or through mutual funds and ETFs.<\/p>\n

In short, the recent jump in the number of millionaire families had something to do with government largesse.<\/p>\n

But it had more to do with personal financial decisions.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s set aside for a moment the families who earn too little to save.<\/p>\n

(We should have compassion for these folks.)<\/p>\n

Tens of millions of Americans with average or above-average incomes \u2013 consumers who splurge on designer brands, drive late-model cars, eat out regularly and treat themselves more than occasionally \u2013 made a conscious decision not to save or invest.<\/p>\n

Some would say they are reaping what they sowed.<\/p>\n

More to the point, they didn\u2019t sow. After all, making fresh investments is like planting seeds.<\/p>\n

Just as the tiny acorn turns into a mighty oak, small investments \u2013 left alone to compound over years or even decades \u2013 will turn an average investor into a millionaire or multimillionaire.<\/p>\n

The folks who save and invest get richer. They also leave those who don\u2019t further behind.<\/p>\n

But unequal doesn\u2019t necessarily mean unfair.<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s needed to become a millionaire \u2013 or turn a million-dollar portfolio into a multimillion-dollar fortune \u2013 is to work, save, invest and compound.<\/p>\n

Yes, it takes discipline and patience.<\/p>\n

Yet tens of millions of Americans whose wealth would define them as poor today will one day be rich.<\/p>\n

As a young man in my 20s, for example, I had no job security, no savings, no health insurance, no investment portfolio and a net worth of approximately zero.<\/p>\n

Looking around at the time, my friends and neighbors were pretty much all in the same boat. Yet that changed over time.<\/p>\n

Polls show that my experience was not unusual.<\/p>\n

For example, only 1% of families under 35 are millionaires. But that rises dramatically with age.<\/p>\n

By ages 55 to 64, more than 1 in 5 families are millionaires. In fact, 11% of those in this age group have a net worth of over $5 million.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong. There is still plenty of economic struggle in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Yet many of these folks are lacking only direction \u2013 and a plan of action.<\/p>\n

The post The Road to the \u201cSeven-Figure Club\u201d appeared first on Wealthy Retirement.<\/p>\n

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