Nick Stone

I remember visiting my grandma as a child and being fascinated with her passion for investing. The TV would be on silent, with all the stock tickers moving across the bottom of the screen. The financial section of the newspaper was folded over to the page with all the stock information and much of the page was decorated with her shorthand and a bunch of different highlighted numbers in bright green and bright red.

At the time, I didn't realize that what my grandma was doing was working to provide a lasting legacy for her family, and that together with...