High Net Worth Individual - HNWI

Bank. You have it. You have high net worth. Lots of money. And this lofty status puts you in a highly targeted group for brokers of money.

Jesse James was asked, "Why do you rob banks?" And he supposedly answered, "Because that's where the money is."

In most banks with retail brokerages, a HNWI is defined loosely as something with at least a few milliion bucks in liquid assets...liquid as in tradeable stocks which could be bought and sold, with commission and/or fees attached to each transaction.

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