most people alive today will never be able to retire almost half of all Americans report having no dedicated retirement Accounts at all and Rising living costs means that Millennials will need more than a million dollar save to retire comfortably it's a bleak outlook for most people who will probably be working in some capacity until the day they die but there are people with enough money to live several lifetimes in extreme luxury without ever needing to work again and yet they still choose to work even at the expense of their health their family life and wor of all their own net worth so what the is stopping so many billionaires from retiring well hell do War know about retirement even with his children in leadership positions it doesn't look like AR not is ready to retire just yet age really isn't much of an ET turns it ET turn everything else I mean you know according to Bloomberg the average age of a global billionaire is now 63 years old and it's slowly getting older every year as wealthy people live longer and longer lives male billionaires are slightly older as 63. 7 years and female billionaires are on average 62. 4 years old female billionaires have a longer life expectancy than male billionaires but they still Trend younger because several of them have been the beneficiary of an inherited estate or divorce settlement at a younger age Forbes has also now reported that there are no billionaires under the age of 30 that are self-made all of them have inherited their wealth as billionaires are getting older and richer an ever increasing number of them are also working well into their Twilight years you might think that they are just obsessed with accumulating more wealth the mental state of billionaires who just need more is a factor that we will get to soon but for some of them they would actually be even richer if they just took a step back and enjoyed their wealth a report by the Associated Press found that Donald Trump would be worth as much as $1 13 billion if he had just taken his $400 million inheritance in 1988 and passively invested it into the S&P 500 that's a fortune almost double what he is estimated to have today by Forbes even after the huge boost he got from the IPO of true social love or hate the guy you can't argue that he could have made life a lot easier for himself by just living off a passive Investment Portfolio the world's richest man on the day that this video was recorded is Bernard Arno who is still the active chairman and CEO of the luxury goods company lvmh despite being 75 years old almost old enough to run for president if only he were American that's 15 years later than when most people hope they can retire and only 7 years away from the average life expectancy of the average Frenchmen secession planning has started to worry other investors in the company because the agent chairman has made it clear he doesn't want to step down despite the problems it's causing for the company so it's time to learn how money Works to find out the three reasons why billionaires refuse to retire this week's lesson is sponsored by hostinger the world's fastest growing web hosting company hostinger makes it easy to get your domain and launch your website whether it's to Showcase your portfolio start blogging or build an online shop host iner has you covered every step of the way we thought it might be useful to create a website that can showcase some of the books that we like so we did using hostinger we registered how many works library.
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and Joshua R Stanford found that 69% of billionaires on the Forbes 400 list started their own business the remaining 31% of Forbes rich listers sourced their fortunes from inheritance lucky Investments or through pay packages as top company Executives according to the Bloomberg billionaire index Steve Balmer is currently the sixth richest man in the world but he made most of his fortune without starting a company of his own he instead worked as the CEO of Microsoft after Bill Gates stepped down Palmer received billions of dollars of company stock for filling the shoes of Bill Gates between 201000 and 2014 and his role was considered so important that despite mediocre company performance during his tenure he is now worth almost as much as Gates himself the success of some companies relies heavily on the work of a few key people who are often also the founders who are billionaires on paper if you start a business that becomes so successful that you're staking it is worth a billion dollars you still can't retire unless you have a way to liquidate your position you can do this by selling your shares either through an acquisition or taking your company public you can also get your business to generate enough positive cash flow that you can pay yourself a dividend and live on that income stream in retirement or if you are very financially creative you can use the equity you have in your company as collateral for a personal loan that you can then use to fund your retirement selling your equity in your company is the easiest option according to data compiled by by Morgan Stanley research and published by the financial times the size of private Equity Funds that specialize in buying businesses from their Founders has increased by 800% in the last 20 years the other way to sell your shares is through an initial public offering but then there will be lots of rules about how quickly you can sell off your shares no matter who you sell your shares to the general public or an investment firm they probably aren't going to want you to quit the second you cash out which is why a lot of private Equity deals will have earnout Clauses with conditions around how long you have to work with the company after you secure the bag the reason Balmer was paid so much was because he was the only man in the world who could fill the shoes of gates as the head of the company after he stepped back as the rule of the CEO according to the corporate law firm Reed Smith the average earnout period is getting longer and the average time that a Founder needs to stay with the company after selling it is now between 1 and 3 years so selling your shares will take time making a business cash flow enough to pay you dividends will also take a lot of time and it could mean sacrificing future business growth if you're company is paying you a dividend it can't reinvest that money into R&D or acquiring another company if you are the only shareholder that's your trade-off to make but if you have other investors they will put the pressure on you to keep the business growing you could also use your company as collateral to take out a loan this is popular with people like Elon Musk who have used his Tesla shares as collateral on loans to fund his purchase of Twitter and for additional funding for SpaceX operations oh and you still have the small inconvenience of needing to repay your loan so you better get back to work all three of your options are surprisingly slow so most successful Founders actually find it quite hard to ride off into the sunset despite our perceptions of billionaire Tech Bros starting companies in their college dorm the average company founder is already quite old according to research conducted by the Harvard Business review the average age of someone who starts a successful company is 45 years old scaling a company to a billion dollar valuation took on average 5. 5 years according to data from flexim but the median is much higher because most companies don't skill as fast as Tech startups finding a buyer and going through due diligence for a sale can take more than a year as well and with an earnout period the average business founder is going to be almost 60 years old at their earliest opportunity to step away from their business those are the financial reasons but it's also silly to ignore the psychology of wealth at this scale either good or bad so far we have assumed that you will need at least $1 billion in liquid assets to retire comfortably but you obviously don't company Founders that scale their company to be worth billions dollars are going to receive several acquisition offers before they get to that point someone who becomes a billionaire from founding a business would have turned down offers to cash up for tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars all life-changing amounts of money for almost anybody someone who does that either believes in their company so much that retirement isn't even something they would consider or they are just so addicted to watching a number go up that nothing will satisfy them the statistical number of billionaires working well into their old age suffers from selection bias anybody who is happy with with a reasonable amount of wealth would have cashed out well before they became a billionaire Tom from Myspace sold the early social media site to news Court in 2005 for $580 million his personal stick after taxes was estimated to be worth around $200 million he is not a billionaire but he is currently living a life you would expect a billionaire retire to be living compare that to Mark Zuckerberg who could have also sold a stake in Facebook at the same age for even more money and the only difference is that Zuck either wanted to accumulate even more wealth for the sake of wealth or he just didn't want to trade in the lifestyle of being one of the most powerful businessmen in the world for some lazy days on the beach and that's the third reason why so many elderly billionaires refuse to retire according to a report conducted by Harvard Business review the average CEO Works around 62.
