How High Net Worth Individuals Spend Their Money ft. Long Angle's 2025 Survey | Navigating Wealth

Long Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities, and ambitions.

Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth is a podcast for founders, executives, and investor operators who have built significant wealth. Each episode features a guest with an unusual career journey and deep expertise across some aspect of the economy, investing, family, health, or lifestyle.

In this episode, Co-Hosts Tad Fallows, Sriram Gollapalli, and Matt Shechtman discuss the inaugural 2025 Long Angle Professional Services Benchmarking Survey. We analyze spending patterns and satisfaction levels across financial services, personal services, and family-related services for individuals with $5M to $100M in net worth.

Key Topics Covered:
• Why 20% of high net worth individuals don't use CPAs and 42% are considering switching
• The surprising dissatisfaction gap between personal trainers (9.3/10) and personal assistants (6.7/10)
• AUM vs. fee-based wealth management models and why satisfaction varies dramatically
• Estate planning costs ranging from $9K to $35K for similar services
• The challenge of finding quality personal trainers and virtual vs. in-person service delivery
• Whether the future lies in à la carte services or bundled family office solutions
• Public vs. private school decisions among wealthy families (nearly a 50/50 split)

Links:
• 2025 Long Angle Professional Services Survey: https://www.longangle.com/research/hi...
• Long Angle Community: https://www.longangle.com/apply-now-nw
• Subscribe to Navigating Wealth's Weekly Newsletter: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-...

Chapters:
00:00 - Welcome to Navigating Wealth: Professional Services Survey
02:27 - CPAs & Tax Preparation
15:07 - Wealth Management: The AUM Pricing Dilemma
24:28 - The Family Office Satisfaction Model
25:24 - Personal Trainers: Highest Satisfaction at 9.3/10
25:48 - Personal Assistants: The Low Satisfaction Problem
29:08 - What Makes Executive Assistants Valuable
31:01 - Finding Quality Personal Services
37:44 - Estate Planning
38:41 - The Estate Attorney Search & Price Variance
41:14 - Why Estate Planning is So Hard To Evaluate
42:01 - Key Takeaways & Next Steps

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