Sports Illustrated once estimated that 78 percent of NFL players end up broke or under financial stress after they retire. In an interview with NerdWallet, Owens and his friend Eric Dickerson, the Hall of Fame running back most famous for his time with the Los Angeles Rams, talked about their experiences and what young athletes should know about building a solid financial future. Some of the challenges players face are unique; not many of us have to grapple with multimillion-dollar signing bonuses.
But the destructive financial behaviors that many players demonstrate are also common outside professional sports. Here are some of the ways people sabotage their finances. Imagine what happens when you have big money. The MLB is no different. These athletes not only gave much of their wealth to Stanford, but also all of their trust and he essentially took their money and ran with it. Also they may not understand the investment fully and get taken for all that they are worth.
Many players will say here is my money, invest it without surveying the risks involved or even realizing that there are risks involved.
Coming into that much money so quickly may force a player to just pay someone to handle it because it is much easier that way. Seymour also brings up a good point that is often overlooked by people on the outside or the fans; this is the length of professional sports careers.
There are very few athletes in any sport that can last long enough to retire and have enough money to not worry about the rest of their lives. Howe played professional hockey throughout five decades pning nearly fifty years. An article from quanthockey. On average that accounted for roughly games played for skaters but far less for goaltenders "Average Length of an NHL Player Career ". The numbers across the other three major leagues are very similar or lower. However hockey players, for the most part, are either good with their money or good at staying out the spotlight if they do go broke.
The RAM Financial Group is a company that specializes in helping professional athletes manage their wealth. In an article on their website they wrote that the average NFL career is 3. These three figures make sense too; that as the sports get less physical the career length gets longer.
The baseball statistic did not include pitchers however, who are far more prone to injury and typically have much shorter careers than position players. Those figures are also the averages, meaning half of the players fall below that career length. Those players only lasting a season or two in most cases are not star players and are not earning large signing bonuses or special incentives.
Chances are they are late round draft picks and sign for the league minimum. RAM Financial Group says that athletes must plan for nearly 50 years of retirement after sports. Since many athletes did not go to, or did not finish college, they do not have a degree to rely for help in the job search after their career has ended. There are only a select few athletes that can maintain a job in the sports world, such as a television announcer or analyst, coach, or scout et cetera; it requires a certain personality and intelligence.
Butowsky is a managing partner at Chapwood Investments which is a wealth management firm. Butowsky realized that broke athletes was a reoccurring theme throughout major league sports and he felt the need to do something about it. Some of these athletes were well off and others were not. He taught them things about money from the very basics of what is a bond, to some more complicated topics such as insurance and retirement.
These sessions were free of charge and the goal was to educate these young men so that they did not fall into financial ruin like so many athletes before them Torre. So where do most of them go wrong? He mentioned pouring money into a religious movie that saw no return. He was luckier than most broke athletes however, because he never filed for bankruptcy, had legal trouble or got divorced, and most importantly he had his degree from Notre Dame.
It was similar to the idea of the Hard Rock Cafe. His lack of interest in the investment led him to lose a considerable amount of his money by writing a single check. If I were about to invest that much money I would want to see building plans, permits, other investors, revenue, and much more before I decided to invest anything at all.
One would think Ismail learned his lesson, but the opposite is true. He continually pumped thousands of dollars into sketchy investments that never took off. He was too trustworthy and easily persuaded by smooth talkers and promising business plans such as a music label, a cosmetics line, tourist shops, and a phone card dispensary company. All of which failed miserably and he saw no return on his investments. Some may call it bad luck but Butowsky sees it differently.
I would not be willing to risk much money on a thirty three percent chance of making money. The lure of tangible items is so much greater than buying something intangible like a stock.
Most athletes love the spotlight, and by saying so and so owns a bar or restaurant is a lot sexier and more intriguing than being a shareholder in a Fortune company, even though it may be a safer investment.
Risk-averse investors suggest allocating most of their investments to a mix of public securities which to most athletes are invisible and boring. The thrill of inventions and nightclubs are for more appealing but riskier. People seek to take advantage of them and as history shows it they have been extremely successful. Even though this company was dealing with several lawsuits from players and others, they still invested. The stories of athletes buying real estate to sell and rent are very common and their results are all too similar.
The financial crisis put a huge damper on the housing market and caused many of the properties to be foreclosed on putting these athletes further into debt. Many properties are up for sale on EBay, far below their original asking prices and market values.
Young, rich athletes are similar to a lottery winner who comes into millions without knowing how to handle it. Many athletes will admit they know nothing about the business and financial world after the fact they have made very costly investments without knowing all the details about where their money is actually going.
He never recouped his money and has no idea what became of the restaurant. Lesson learned? If only. After that Ismail squandered a fortune funding not only that inspirational movie but also the music label COZ Records "The guy was areal good talker," says Rocket ; a cosmetics procedure whereby oxygen was absorbed into the skin "We were not prepared for the sharks in the beauty industry" ; a plan to create nationwide phone-card dispensers "When I was in college, phone cards were a big deal" ; and, recently, three shops dubbed It's in the Name, where tourists could buy framed calligraphy of names or proverbs of their choice "The main store opened up in New Orleans, but doggone Hurricane Katrina came two months later".
The shops no longer exist. You might say Ismail had a run of terrible luck, but the odds were never close to being in his favor. Industry experts estimate that only one in 30 of the highest-caliber private investment deals works out as advertised. Yet with athletes, who are often uninterested in either conservative spending or the stock market, those percentages are frequently flipped.
Securities are invisible, after all, and if you don't study them,they're unintelligible. Not to mention boring. Inventions, nightclubs, car dealerships and T-shirt companies have an advantage: the thrill of tangibility. Many players,consequently, are financial prey. The players later sued the financial-services firm UBS, which had encouraged its clients to invest in PayBy Touch, for allegedly withholding information about the company founder's criminal history and drug use.
The pitch was that when high-rainfall areas were flooded, consumers could pump up the device, allowing a sofa to float and remain dry. I wound up never seeing that guy--or any of my money--again. But innumerable other athletes have not been so lucky. Former and perhaps future NFL quarterback Michael Vick filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last July and recently put his mansion in suburban Atlanta on the market.
But Johnson is the rare, luminous exception of tangibility gone right. In he started a chain of inner-city movie theaters and diligently built a business empire.
Today Magic Johnson Enterprises includes partnerships with Starbucks, 24 HourFitness, Aetna and Best Buy, and its capital management division has invested over a billion dollars in urban communities. According to a civil suit filed on Feb. It has since reopened with help from an anonymous investor. And former major league infielder Junior Spivey's portfolio of real estate has lately assumed the form of a sinkhole. He won't say how many properties he owns. Then there are the unnamed athletes and team personnel who pawned title rings to the online reseller championship-rings.
A Giants Super Bowl ring was among them. Selling these items is always embarrassing, a last resort. Salary aside, the closest analogue to a pro athlete is not a white-collar executive. It's a lottery winner--who's often in his early twenties.
Johnson started out by admitting he knew nothing about business and seeking counsel from the power brokers who sat courtside at the old L. Now, Johnson says, he gets calls from star players "every day"--Alex Rodriguez, Shaquille O'Neal, Dwyane Wade, Plaxico Burress--and cuts them short if they propose relying on friends and family. Well,they'll fail. Says Hunter,"They'll say, 'I got this guy, a cousin who's an accountant. You hire him, you're doing him a favor. Strickland realized that all too late.
In , when a "friend of a close friend"of the nine-year NBA vet proposed a real-estate deal in Georgia, Strickland turned to his business manager: his dad, Matthew, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. But he didn't go that extra length. The land wasn't worth anything close to what Strickland was told. He just didn't have the knowledge. Strickland says the man secretly got a cut of the deal, and the conflict caused a permanent "falling out" between them.
Relatives are not the only ones foolishly trusted with athletes' money. One up-and-coming guard in the NBA allows his entire fortune to be managed by his former AAU coach, who has the player's power of attorney. In a meeting with Butowsky in December, the guard's dad admitted that he has no idea who the son's accountant is and said he wanted a financial "intervention.
The NBA player's ignorance of his own affairs is not unique. In this rogues' gallery Robert Allen Stanford looks almost presidential--and shows that even when athletes trust financiers of high repute, things can go disastrously wrong.
Soon after his conviction Wright committed suicide in prison. In October,Atwater himself received an investment pitch from a fellow athlete. Former quarterback Jeff Blake sent other retired players an e-mail on behalf ofTriton Financial, an investment firm in Austin, whose "athlete services" department Blake directs along with three other ex-QBs: Chris Weinke and the brothers Detmer, Ty and Koy. Says Paul Cohen,a real estate investor who owns properties in Austin, "In this economy,especially in real estate, anything you bought in the last two years is deeply underwater.
I guess what [Triton is] saying could happen. But then again, I could target the moon with my rifle and shoot, but I ain't gonna hit it. Barton also conceded that Triton was "not supposed to publish specific numbers about past performance"without significant disclaimers, including a disclosure of what the company had invested in. On a much smaller scale, Torii Hunter and Astros pitcher LaTroy Hawkins recall the story of a former major leaguer from the Dominican Republic whose adviser took care of all his financial matters.
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