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Goldman Sachs used to shun clients with less than $25m. It could soon serve people with $5,000 to invest

event consultant in Los Angeles, is neither disorganised nor innumerate. Ask about her finances, however, and you lose her for two hours. She opens her current account on a mobile app, then cites a rainy-day fund at another bank. She has 14 credit cards, five mortgages, six insurance policies and several pensions with ex-employers.

That leaves a lot of money on the table. According to Oliver Wyman, a banking consultancy, the affluent, with $21trn in assets, and those below them, with $51trn, have as much to invest between them as high-net-worth individuals. The problem is that advisers, branches and time are costly. Most private banks deem portfolios below $2m barely profitable.

Third, negative interest rates are eroding the money held by the masses, about half of which is in cash deposits. So clients are crying for help.

 

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those creating the wealth by hard work should benefit first. Fk your shareholders

No. Meaning workers are being exploited and unearned wealth is out of control

Waiting for the day when brokerage houses will stop charging a brokerage fee on simple derivatives

People with 5k to invest should never trust Goldman Sachs.

While it invests in taking resouces from those with $1

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