Long Angle

Long Angle is a peer community for wealthy individuals that charges no membership fee. It has more than 8,500 members across 45 countries, with an average net worth of US$17 million and an average age of 45. That age figure is the most revealing number on the page: this is a younger community than most in this directory, weighted toward people who have had a liquidity event rather than inherited generational wealth.

Who joins

Membership is by application, with financial qualification reviewed as part of it. Long Angle does not publish its threshold, so the average net worth of US$17 million is the best available guide to who is actually inside.

The community skews toward technology, professional services and business exits, and toward people who are managing significant wealth for the first time without an inherited family office structure around them. If that describes your position, the peer group is unusually well matched. If you are the fourth generation of a family with an established office, the questions being discussed will be less relevant.

How membership works

There is no membership fee, and Long Angle says so twice on its own homepage. That is genuinely unusual in this directory, where annual dues in the tens of thousands are common, and it is the single fact most likely to bring you here from a comparison search.

The obvious question is how it is funded. Long Angle maintains brand partnership and investment partnership pages, and channels more than US$100 million a year into alternative investments on behalf of members, so the economics plainly sit somewhere in that activity rather than in dues. The site does not spell out the arrangement, which is worth knowing before you treat investment opportunities surfaced through the community as neutral. Ask directly.

What members get

Four things. An online community for confidential discussion of money questions that are difficult to raise anywhere else. Access to alternative investments described as institutional grade. In-person events, virtual workshops and an annual retreat. And Trusted Circles, which are vetted peer advisory groups of six to eight members meeting monthly on subjects such as optimising wealth, planning an exit and building a legacy.

The Trusted Circles are the closest thing to a paid peer advisory group, and comparing them with TIGER 21's model is a fair way to judge the value. TIGER 21 places you in a facilitated group of 12 to 15 with an annual portfolio review, and charges accordingly. Long Angle gives you a smaller self-organising circle and a much larger surrounding community, for nothing. Which is better depends on whether you want professional facilitation or simply want access.