Goldman Sachs: 36.6% of households with >$500k (>97th percentile) income primarily live paycheck to paycheck

There is an entire segment of the private banking industry that is dedicated to physicians.

They are known to be high earners and terrible money managers. This has nothing to do with loans, malpractice insurance, the high cost of leasing diagnostic equipment. They are easy prey for purchasing annuities (very high fees), high fee mutual funds, “exotic” investments in non-liquid assets (mining rights) and commodities. They drive more expensive cars than the guy across the street who owns a fleet of refrigerated trucks and warehouses (who has similar annual income but a higher net worth due to conservative investing strategies), and they generally live larger.

Not every doctor is paying off loans. And even THEY are described as “prime targets” for the wealth management industry. The notion of buying a basket of no-load mutual funds or passive index fund and just leaving it alone is not terribly popular with this group! Good for their investment advisor, bad for them…

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