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More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their
children
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a new survey showed last Tuesday.
The survey
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published by the Bank of America
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studied the rich with $3
million or more in assets.It found that 鈥渟urprisingly few of those surveyed
have welldeveloped plans to preserve and pass on their assets to their
children鈥?/p>
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The majority of the 457 people surveyed are selfmade
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firstgeneration
rich.Fiftytwo percent of parents have chosen not to tell their children just
how wealthy they are
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and 15 percent have given away nothing about
the family wealth.One in three parents said they had never thought to do
it.
They are worried that their children would become lazy
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spend money
freely
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make bad decisions and even become a target for gold diggers.
Only 34 percent strongly agreed that their children would be able to
handle any inheritance (
閬椾骇
) they plan to leave them.
鈥淭here is an expectation about the wealthy parents that
they have a
responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation
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鈥?nbsp;said
Sallie Krawcheck
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president of the Global Wealth and Investment
Management of the Bank of America.鈥淥ur research
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however
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uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the
next.鈥?/p>
The trend is led by the world鈥檚 richest man Bill Gates
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who promised in
2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by
him and his wife
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the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation (
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)
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and
not to his children.
鈥淲e want to give
it back to society in the way that it will have the most