{"id":66489,"date":"2026-07-11T21:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66489"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:29:59","slug":"classes-of-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66489","title":{"rendered":"Classes of Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a post that listed 15 assets and one positive feature of each. One can quibble about aspects of it but it is interesting starting point for a discussion with your kids.<br \/>\n1 Stocks = Compound wealth<br \/>\n2 ETFs = Simple investing<br \/>\n3 Land = Long-term appreciation<br \/>\n4 Business = Financial leverage<br \/>\n5 Skills &#8211; Lifetime income<br \/>\n6 Books = Better decisions<br \/>\n7 Digital products = Passive income<br \/>\n8 Rental property = Cash flow<br \/>\n9 Brand = Trust and influence<br \/>\n10 Health = Long-term performance<br \/>\n11 Audience = Opportunity access<br \/>\n12 Networking = Hidden wealth<br \/>\n13 Technology = Faster productivity<br \/>\n14 Knowledge = Competitive advantage<br \/>\n15 Time = Greatest asset<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a post that listed 15 assets and one positive feature of each. One can quibble about aspects of it but it is interesting starting point for a discussion with your kids. 1 Stocks = Compound wealth 2 ETFs = Simple investing 3 Land = Long-term appreciation 4 Business = Financial leverage 5 Skills &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Classes of Assets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66490,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66489\/revisions\/66490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}