If you’ve already made your money, you might think that there’s little left to do but sit back and enjoy it. However, the key to turning existing wealth into future and even generational wealth is to plan well with it. Here, we’re going to look at how the successfully wealthy keep hold of their money, elevating their status and security for the foreseeable.

Protect your money

Asset protection strategies become essential when your wealth gets to a certain size. Investing in liability insurance can be the most important, ensuring that any suits, no matter how frivolous or otherwise, have their costs covered to some degree. Keeping assets separate as well can be important if your living situation changes in future rather than, for instance, keeping all of your money in joint accounts with other parties, such as spouses, children, or business partners.

Using your money to grow your money

The truly wealthy do not make all of their money from their career alone. When you make enough money, you should have it start making money for you. The single most effective way of doing this is, of course, is to understand how to invest to make money. There are a lot of different markets one can invest in, from real estate to the stock market, forex trades to cryptocurrency and beyond. The best strategy is to invest in what you know but to diversify between markets so that, even if you take a hit to your profits in one market, it’s not likely to affect your gains in the other markets.

Ensuring it goes where you want

At some point, wealth becomes more than something that affects your lifestyle alone but becomes a generational impact that you leave on your family. How you want your money to be distributed or used when you’re no longer around is up to you, but to make sure that your plans are followed, you will want to work with an estate lawyer. Without expert legal advice helping you craft any estate plans or wills, it is easy for disputes to end up changing what happens from what your intentions originally were. Wills that are made without the right legal considerations can get thrown out in a court quite easily.

Crafting a comprehensive strategy

The tips above are all examples of how you can make use of your wealth to plan for the future, whether it’s to secure your money, to grow it, or to ensure that it passes to those that you want it to go to. However, as an individual, you may have specific circumstances you want to work with that affect your plans for your wealth. As well as working with the right lawyers, there are also wealth management firms who can sit with you and craft entire strategies related to your wealth goals.

Of course, no plan is 100% failureproof. As such, it’s important to diversify where your money goes and how it is used. Consider working with the professionals who can help you put together the strategy best suited to your needs.