I got my hands on Zooey’s assets, income, and expenses. Her lawyer kindly included this info in the documents when she and her husband Ben Gibbard filed for divorce, so now the information is public. I feel like someone should be fired.
TMZ reported that her net worth is $3.9 million. She has about $1.6 million in stocks, $1.6 million in “the bank,” which probably means cash, and about $700,000 in real estate.
That means over 40% of her net worth is in cash. This girl is sitting on tons of cash.
I don’t know if she has a financial advisor, but it’s interesting that she doesn’t have any fixed income (bond) exposure.
Under normal circumstances, at 31-years-old, an advisor would probably tell her to have 31% of her investments in bonds. But her advisor probably isn’t going by the old rule of “buy your age in bonds” because that rule makes no sense right now.
Interest rates are at thirty-year lows. Times have changed, make sure your advisor isn’t playing by an old playbook.
It looks like she’s trading bond exposure for cash. Maybe she’s worried about some of the things that I’m worried about with bond exposure. Or, maybe she’s sitting on a bunch of cash because her new sitcom “New Girl” is about as fun to watch as “2 Broke Girls.”
Shoot me now.
I’m most impressed with the fact that she seems to spend a fraction of what she makes, about 24%. But that’s not hard to do when you’re making millions.
Here’s the full article on TMZ
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