If the job goes at fifty, what are you standing on?
For a senior corporate professional, an enormous share of life rides on a single logo — the salary, the bonus, and the stock. It feels like loyalty. It is, quietly, concentration risk.
Year after year the ESOPs and RSUs vest, until a large part of your savings sits in the same company whose payslip you depend on. On paper you feel diversified. In reality, one event — a downturn, a restructuring — could take the salary and the savings at the same time, at the precise moment you’d need them most.
Underneath sits a quieter clock: the runway after fifty is shorter than the lifestyle assumes, and ‘I’ll just keep working’ is a hope, not a plan.
The struggles I hear most from executives
- “My net worth is my salary and my company stock — if the job goes at 50, what am I standing on?”
- ESOP/RSU concentration: undiversified, and emotionally hard to sell.
- Golden handcuffs and lifestyle inflation — you look wealthy, but you’re not yet free.
- One income, taxed at the top slab, with no plan B.
We separate your net worth from your employer’s fortunes — trimming concentrated stock sensibly as it vests, diversifying into a plan that doesn’t wear one logo, and putting a real number on the corpus that buys you the choice to step back. Quietly, deliberately, we turn a high income into genuine independence.
The reading below is written for the executive’s particular set of risks.
If everything rides on one company, it’s worth building something that doesn’t. One honest conversation, no pressure.
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Hardik Joshi, Certified Financial Planner® (CFP®)
Two decades planning — not selling — for Gujarat’s families, professionals and founders.
Hardik Joshi is the Founder of Shrey Wealth (ARN‑255332). Shrey Wealth is an AMFI‑registered Mutual Fund Distributor. Visit www.shreywealth.in for more details.
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