Investment and Wealth Management and the LGBTQ Community
Wealth management has become an increasingly important necessity for the LGBTQ community over the past few years. The complexity of the issues facing the community has grown significantly and the financial needs of the community has grown in parallel.
For example, the increasing number of same-sex marriages has brought with it the need for the management of combined investments, taxes and life insurance to secure a desired lifestyle. The number of LGBTQ parents is on the rise and this requires specific financial planning to meet family needs. Meanwhile, those individuals remaining single have had to manage their assets to support themselves during volatile financial markets. Travel and leisure is an important part of life for many in the LGBTQ community but this requires careful financial planning to achieve. Members of the LGBTQ community are more sensitive to environmental and social issues and want to support these efforts with charitable work and donations, both requiring financial management. With AIDS and now COVID, health issues for the LGBTQ community can be different than society as a whole - the increasing cost of health requires good financial planning. Similarly, an ageing population base has focused the community on the need to plan, save and invest for a retirement that is comfortable and secure and which allows the LGBTQ individual to remain out and proud during a challenging time their life.
The financial planning and research firm LGBTQ Capital estimates that the LGBT population’s share of Global Household Wealth to be around US$18 trillion. This estimate is derived from Household Wealth research and data from the Credit Suisse Research Institute publications “Global Wealth Report 2017” and “Global Wealth Databook 2017”, combined with LGBT-specific metrics. This is not a small amount of capital to be professionally managed, yet in a recent poll published in the Journal of Financial Management, two thirds of the 86% of LGBT people surveyed who reported they need wealth management services have not yet chosen a financial advisor.
Historically, the investment community has not been tolerant of the LGBTQ community. Wealth management has traditionally been a male-dominated profession. Since American Walter Schubert became the first public gay individual to be a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1992 and founded The Gay Financial Network, the visible participation of prominent LGBTQ members in the profession has materially improved.
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See Also
- LGBTQ Chief Executive Officers of Business Enterprises
- LGBTQ Bankers
- LGBTQ Chief Information/Technology Officers
- Union Leaders Who Identify as LGBTQ
- LGBTQ Economists
- Noteworthy LGBTQ Individuals in the Accounting Profession
- Human Resource Professionals Who Are LGBTQ
- Marketing Professionals Who Identify as LGBTQ
- Prominent LGBTQ Philanthropists and Donors
- LGBTQ Billionaires
- LGBTQ Venture Capitalists and Startup Advisors
