Beyond Gold: True Wealth for Inheritors
As an advisor to wealthy, multi-generational families, I often find myself looking not only for information and insight on a variety of family dynamics issues, but also for tools to help families work together to make better decisions, discuss common issues, or simply enhance the richness of their family experience. In this book, Thayer uses her skills as a counselor and her own family experiences and delivers practical, real world insights to a whole set of challenging issues. Her stories illuminate everyday situations and solutions, and the tools she shares with her readers will bring both families and advisors back to its pages over and over again. --J. Richard Joyner, President, Private Wealth Management, Tolleson Wealth ManagementThayer has artfully woven together practical advice and strategies to help build and support healthy relationships in wealthy families as well as among friends. She addresses all the right questions and provides useful guidance for handling tricky situations that come with inherited wealth. These ideas work I have seen them in action. --Merial I. Currier, President, Gates Capital ManagementHaving investigated the intersection of family dynamics and financial planning for the last 15 years, I find Thayer s tome a remarkable synthesis of the state of the art today. Encyclopedic in scope and practical in focus, she puts human relationships front and center in the inheritor s challenge to create a meaningful life. The book is invaluable for the questionnaires, exercises, and quotations alone; not to mention an accessible, relaxed writing style that truly illuminates the bright side of wealth. --Jim Grote, CFP, Financial Journalist