one of a financial advisor’s most important jobs is to help clients build and protect intergenerational wealth but when serving africanamerican clients that job becomes more complex and challenging one study shows that if current trends continue it will take 228 years for the average black family to reach the level of wealth of white families today clearly there is a lot of room for improvement in fact there are many ways to support and help build generational wealth for africanamerican clients there is more wealth