I think the thing to remeber here is that there are different types of intelligence. There is a huge difference between "IQ test intelligence" and "business intelligence." Anyone, regardless of IQ, can have a high level of business/financial intelligence.
"Being more intelligent does not confer any advantage along, Zagorsky finds, looking at the data with statistical tests. Income does weakly correspond to intelligence test scores, he finds, where a one point increase in IQ test scores is related to an income increase of $346 per year. But at most, that same one-point increase in IQ leads to a net worth increase of at most $83, but probably zero...And when it comes to financial distress, smarts are no help at all. People with 140 IQ scores (a score of 100 is average) missed payments and maxed-out their credit cards more often than their lower IQ counterparts. "
Study: It Doesn't Pay to Be Smart
by Dan Vergano
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-08-12-smart-not-rich_N.htm
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