Wealth Systems

Wealth Systems

Income Needs to be the Outcome

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Matt McDonagh
Dec 20, 2025
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Wealth Systems is dedicated to the idea that individual investors should have access to the same information and same strategies as the Elite.

My background in investment banking and alternative investments connected me with hundreds of professional investors including sovereign wealth funds, single family offices and everything in between.

And there is a lot in between.

This prompted me to study the history of wealth making including the financial histories of the wealthiest families in Europe and America.

One common thread between all of them: current income.

They all had more than one income stream. Most had four, or more. The best and biggest families layered passive income streams with active endeavors, and then compounded this wealth with financial engineering.

We’ve unpacked several wealth engines, but these two are powerful and they can be amplified when paired together:

  1. Dividends

  2. Options Writing

The idea with layering income bearing investments is simple:

If you have 90 different inco…

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