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What to understand before a consequential financial decision.
Plain-language articles on reading financial information, weighing big choices, and planning across generations. Written to be useful whether or not you ever work with GenThree.
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Decisions
Reversible or Not: How Much Analysis Does a Financial Decision Deserve?
How do you know when to slow down? Five questions that tell you how much thinking a financial decision is worth.
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Three kinds of question.
Clarity
How to understand financial information, models, and the relationships among financial decisions.
Decisions
How to think about consequential choices: tradeoffs, reversibility, assumptions and uncertainty.
Legacy
How family funding, transfer, stewardship and next-generation decisions interact with the rest of a household's finances.
Reading is one way in. The Financial Clarity Assessment is another: a short set of questions that shows where your own picture may have gaps.
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About this library
Written by Ben, GenThree’s founder. Small on purpose: articles are added when there is something useful to say, not on a schedule.
- Educational
- These articles explain how to think about financial questions. They are not individualized financial, tax or legal advice, and they don't know your situation.
- Sourced
- Where an article states a rule that can change, it cites the source and the date it was checked.
- Illustrations are labelled
- Any example that is invented is marked as fictional where it appears.
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- GenThree does not publish client case studies. If that changes, it will only be with a client's written permission.