Wealth Building

Aspen FSP recently convened a series of roundtables on early wealth building policy. Here’s what we’ve learned.

This report summarizes learnings from ASSEMBLE100 and identifies opportunities to grow ownership investing as a tool of wealth building.

Renters have less than 3 percent of the wealth of homeowners. How can we help them grow their savings and wealth?

Households achieved historically large net worth growth from 2019-2022. But Aspen FSP’s analysis suggests these gains may not be sustainable.

A program in the UK, started almost 20 years ago, can provide us with real-time insights on the impact of early wealth building accounts.

The importance of what we’re calling “investable sums” in young adulthood has become increasingly clear over the last decades, as the cost of obtaining wealth-building assets in the United States has skyrocketed while incomes have stagnated. 

Increasing the availability of select tribal data is a step towards creating a more inclusive financial system.

It is clear that the benefits of economic growth are not enjoyed by all.

The pandemic and associated crises bring new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.