Wealth management can be referred to as an advanced discipline relating to advice in terms of investment which incorporates specialist monetary services and financial planning. The main objectives are providing families dealing with services in retail banking, legal resources, investment management, and taxation advice goals to sustain and grow long-term wealth. Monetary planning can help the individuals who are accumulating wealth or have already done so.

Wealth management can be exemplified through self-governing advisors or huge corporate entities such as Citigold of Citibank and the other extensions regarding services relating to retail banking designed for focusing on customers dealing with retail worthy of high nets. Customers of such type are likely to be categorized as "upper retail" or "mass affluent" clients owing to net worth of theirs, potential products owned by them from bank, assets of their under management, and many other segmentation methods.

Banks create exclusive services, branches, and other advantages for retaining or attracting the customers who can earn more profits in comparison with the customers detailing with retail banking. It should, however, be noted that clients of wealth management cannot be termed as "Private Banking" clients as they do not justify the criteria of services of banking provided by private banks.