December 8, 2006

Guest Opinion/Wilkinson

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Joe Gordon could not be counted among the super rich. But he and his wife and their two youngsters – 9 and 11 – with a house mortgage and two cars consider themselves a member of America’s “emerging affluent.”

Joe and his working wife take home a combined salary of $86,000 yearly putting him smack dab in the upper-middle class. Joe’s family, like many other households across the nation with middle-class income but major expenses, is still shrewdly investing for its future years.

Joe entrusted some excess assets of $50,000 to a financial planner for the first time a year ago. He…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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