Wealth Transfer: Younger Affluents Favor Crypto and Alternative Investments

Younger affluent individuals favor crypto & alternative investments over traditional stocks & bonds, driven by digital nativity & wealth transfer dynamics.

### Wealth Transfer and Investing Trends Among Younger and Older Generations
* 💰 Younger, more affluent individuals are significantly more inclined to invest in cryptocurrencies and alternative assets, diverging from the traditional focus on **stocks and bonds** by older generations.
* 🏠 Older generations were historically advised to invest in "safe" assets like low-dividend stocks and gold, with the concept of **housing as an investment strategy** only gaining popularity in the early 1990s.
* 🧒 The shift towards alternative investments like **crypto, sports cards, and sneakers** is driven by the younger generation's need to find **new ways to generate wealth** in a challenging economic environment.
* 📈 According to a Bank of America report, **34% of younger individuals** believe it's no longer possible to achieve **above-average returns with stocks and bonds alone**, leading them to explore **alternative investments**.
* 🐋 Despite recent reports of long-term Bitcoin holders and miners selling large amounts of BTC, on-chain data shows that Bitcoin whales purchased **$395 million worth of Bitcoin** amid price stagnation.
* 🔥 Shiba Inu's burn rate continues to rise, with over **232 million SHIB tokens burned in a single day**, highlighting the **ongoing token burning mechanism**.
* 🌐 It is crucial to have open conversations about finance and money, as financial literacy plays a **key role in building wealth and securing one's financial future**.
* 📉 The cryptocurrency market remains volatile, with various factors such as **whale activity, ETF outflows, and institutional selling** influencing price movements.

Hello everybody, welcome back for another video. Hope you're all doing great, hope you're all doing well, hope you're all taking time to take care of yourselves as we float through this ever more uh dramatic Market CU. It shows no signs of letting up its dramatic dramaticness, and without any further Ado, let's jump right into it. Recently, Bank of America released a report describing where people are putting their money. I bet you can't guess where. A recent Bank of America report shows that younger, more affluent individuals, bougie word, favor crypto and alternative investments, differing from older generations' traditional focus. They said, In fact, the most conservative group is holding the highest average exposure to crypto, the bank has said. We see this more and more all the time. I mean, and this is why I think a lot of when I ask you what you talk to about your friends and if you're talking about crypto and stuff like that. I want to say NE all. I was going to say nearly, but I think every

person I know who invests has crypto in some form or another, and I'm like I'm combing through. Everyone either has some crypto or makes up a huge portion of their portfolio. There were studies done years ago as to why so many more young people, if you will, are in the cryptocurrency space, and it comes from the idea of being digitally native. If you grew up with the internet, if you grew up with a smartphone and a tablet, you're used to seeing numbers and things online as opposed to actual physical money. You're not really used to holding a $1 bill, a Euro note, or some yen in your hands. You're used to things being online, being more digital, so you have an easier time understanding that value can also be passed online as opposed to having to go to a bank teller to withdraw money or going to an ATM and all those other kinds of things. Bank of America released a report titled 2024 Bank of America Private Bank study of wealthy Americans, highlighting notable Trends and examining how

generational Dynamics. And this says the upcoming wealth transfer we're currently going through the wealth transfer are shaping Financial strategies. Don't don't be um confused and or lied to. We are witnessing the wealth transfer. There are multiple wealth transfers that usually get discussed. The more popular one has to do with the if you and I air quote here from the Boomers to Millennials and or to uh gen Z. But the problem actually is is that what we're witnessing is currently the movement of wealth quite rapidly in front of us. It has to do with wealthy individuals buying up an enormous amount of stock. It's something that you won't like actually see with your own eyes but according to data we see that basically wealthy families and individuals are making sure that they hold the largest portions of these companies of these institutions of the banking stocks as well. They basically want everything that there is. Same exact thing in the cryptocurrency space when you talk about the amount of crypto being held by wealthy individuals for those of you who were missing it.

couple of days ago, the Ethereum whale wallets, they're growing constantly because they realize that while you can create Ether, Ethereum also has a burn, and it is also therefore deflationary. So they're buying up as much as they can because only people who hold Ether can create any Ether in the future. It's the same thing with Bitcoin. It's the same with every other coin. We see this in the housing market. There's a reason why these companies and institutions are now buying up all these homes, all these apartments, all the condominiums. It's not about a future wealth transfer as we see people who are in their 60s and 70s go to a 100 years old, if you will, and then pass on that money. Like it's happening right now. This is the significance also of you hearing that a couple of companies held, if you will, through the ETFs, over a million Bitcoin. Like it's constantly refocusing over and over and over to this idea that

no, it's all taking place right now, and this is why my opinion. It's very important to be in some type of an investment vehicle. Like I said, I have a lot of friends who are like I've almost like forced years ago to buy some crypto, and now they're happy. But there are people who do, uh, feel happier and more comfortable holding stocks and other things like that, as. And I keep saying, as long as you're invested in something, because the people who are holding the assets are the people who are going to benefit. If you hold nothing in the future, forgive my French, but you are going to be very broke in the future. You're going to have a very, very difficult time, even more so than right now. The report highlights that younger affluent individuals are considerably more inclined to invest in cryptocurrencies compared to their older counterparts. These young investors tend to favor a diversified portfolio, allocating a significant portion to crypto assets and alternative investments as well. Alternative investments can be, and I mean, Pokemon.

cards, comic books, uh, sneakers, you name it. There's a whole different generation of things that they consider to have value. There's also like a huge uptick in young people who are also getting back into sports cards. The sports cards world is, is AB I mean absolutely ridiculous, ully crazy on how big that it is, but it's and I'll explain a little bit more as we continue to go down, but this is a huge reason why you see such a huge shift. And I mean, if we can be completely honest, it even says it here, the approach contrasts with the traditional focus on stocks and bonds typically preferred by older Generations. Now, this is from my vantage point. The problem is, is that older people and I, you know what, have you, they were lied to for a very long time that the only way to make money or to secure money was through very safe, very stable Investments. So any other company, any other institution, any other, whatever, that made an enormous amount of money from the late 40s, early 50s into around

I want to say 19 like mid-80s when the entire banking shift kind of happened, and people were, you know, greed is good, like that kind of idea when everyone began throwing money into the markets. People were discouraged before, you know, that the housing market wasn't considered an investment strategy until the very early 90s, not even the late '80s. A lot of housing ETFs didn't appear until the early 1990s where people realized, not a joke, Hey, we, you can't build forever, the city has a border, that's where that city basically ends, any real estate that is bought here is going to continue going up in value. And that's when housing actually became to the public a relative form of an investment strategy. But through the 50s until the early '90s or like very early 90s, there were a number of very wealthy families who were buying up all this real estate. So the other generations before us, if you will, uh.

told by stocks like very, very, uh, what do you call it, um, like low, low dividend stocks. You know, these. These are the, like, these are the safe ones. But gold. Gold is, you know, really secure. It comes out of the ground. Like, this is where a lot of this mindset comes from when it comes to these old investments. I remember being younger, and my grandmother had a lot of bonds. She had a lot of bonds. It's because that's what she was taught. You put $100 into something, and in five years, you, you, you get back $105. It's safe and secure. Like, and I know someone just rolled their eyes. The idea of waiting five years and getting back $5 is terrible because we know how we have more of an understanding now as to how money is made, how money can be made quickly, and what kind of investments can get you the return to put you far ahead of inflation. So, basically, once again, I watch a lot of documentaries, news stories. I watch all these different things, and this is a lot of times why.

when I tell you that I watch the documentary, and you know it's sad, but they show these people, like usually older people who should have retired. They're 74, sometimes 81, and they're asking them why, why, why they don't have any money. They were told they were never told to save money, that generation would like, you know, and if you were told, it was like have some money under your bed, buried in the backyard. It sounds insane, but this is literally what it was. Have some money in the bank account, but not too much, just in case that the bank went belly up. We didn't have the idea of like FDIC insurance for as long as we have, and even when we started getting it, people still didn't actually trust the banks, as you know, well they shouldn't have around the world. So this entire idea was you don't really need to buy a home, you can continuously rent. So when you see a lot of people who bought homes in the 50s and 60s, they typically

owned one home. The idea of it as an investment simply wasn't a thing. So a lot of the people who are in their 60s, 70s, and 80s who are trying to retire, or could have retired, they typically don't have a lot of money because they were told, No, buy government bonds, buy some gold, that'll definitely set you up for the future. So they might have bought one ounce, two ounces when it was $300, and now they have $4,000 for investment or for retirement. It's really insane to think about. See, even a lot of times, I see people talking or discussing how, if you will, financial YouTubers or even people talking about finance on Instagram or TikTok, how like they, uh, what's the word, they kind of discouraged it, saying, you know, these people shouldn't be talking about it, but I think we need to talk about finance, we need to talk about money. When I was growing up, if you can't tell by my

accident. I grew up in the states, and the issue is, is that we were always like discouraged from talking about money. When you got a job, you like, you were discouraged from asking other people how much they were making. Like, money is always a very like a hush-hush thing. You can hear about money from rich people. Rich people can brag about how much money they have and how many boats they have and how many homes they have on every single TV show. But between you and your friends, it's meant to be like a secret. You don't talk about it. Like, you keep it to yourself. So there's never a discussion of, is anyone ready for retirement? In school, you're not taught how to save. You're not taught. I remember I had like a financial class, and you know, maybe, and I was quite cynical for a number of years about this, but maybe the guy really tried his best. I don't know, but I remember he was teaching us about stocks and stuff like.

that and he was it was so abstract to us and every time that we would try and ask a question he would tell us to put our hand down like we had to just simply absorb whatever ever he was asking so finally one time I remember asking him I I remember clear as day I was asking him a question and I said hey you know everyone's really into apple right now you know the iPhone yada Yad Y and I was like should we be buying Apple stock and I remember seeing the price like on the computer like how low it was and he was like yeah but you got to watch out because like there was and he like basically told the whole class like know if you're going to do it like stay to like really safe things like there were like there was no discussion except for what he had to say so even that like finance class in high school was also like stunted like you know there there was no real growth from it whatever he said we had to absorb we had to write in a piece of paper when we had

the test we had to hand in the test get a grade. Hope that we got it, and then we graduated. There was no extra discussion around it. It's very important to talk about money. Like I, and I understand that money should not be the center of, you know, of the universe of the world. However, we happen to live in a world where it is the center of a lot of things. We see that people can't retire. You want to retire. We see that people have no money. You want money. You need money. You want to buy stuff. You want to be able to relax. You want to be able to retire early. You have to have these conversations. Last point, there's a really good. I have no idea how to find this video for you, but I'm certain someone has seen it. There's a video that I saw circulating on Instagram, and it was this mother, I think with her four kids. I, I think four kids. They were sitting at a table, like a very long dinner table, like so it's a real video.

video. It's not like fake, and she's showing her kids through her Instagram channel, whatever page, how to learn about finance. So, the kids range anywhere from, I want to say, literally like six to maybe like 15, 17, somewhere around there. And she gives them a budget. And in the video, it's so crazy because she goes, Okay, you all have a job, and your job is giving you 2,500 per month. And the kids have to write down 2,500. She goes, Okay, you have to pay for your rent, you have to pay for your insurance. And she goes through multiple different insurances. And she goes, You have to pay for a car. If you don't want a car, you have to have a bike. If you don't have a bike, you have to have a train ticket. You have to pay for new clothing every month. You have to pay for food. You have to pay for if you want to watch TV, you need to pay for Netflix. You need to pay for this.

have to pay for. She has everything completely laid out with prices like on a chalkboard, so kids are writing down all the numbers. And she goes, Okay, now add all these numbers up. And the numbers come out to, I mean, somewhere along the line of like 2,400 per month. And one of the kids goes, I don't have any money left. And she goes, Exactly. And she goes, So then the kid goes, but that's not fair. She goes, Exactly. She goes, So what's the answer? She goes, You have to literally find a way to make enough money to be able to even have money left over to save. One of the other kids goes and realizes, I don't have any money to hang out with my friends, how do I go on a vacation? So some of the kids start like exing off like, Okay, well I won't have a car, I'll have a bike, because that's they like, they're literally going through this idea. But it's so like, it gets the mind working. It's so important you have to talk about.

money. You have to, under like, let people understand even around you. Like ways to save, ways to have stuff in the future. I know far too many people who now don't have Jack diddly squat. It is crazy. And I mean like in their late 20s, early 30s, early 40s even, even and don't have nothing, nothing, not, not like nothing to their name. And anytime I bring up Finance, it's always like an eye-rolly moment like why is he talking about this again. And this is ex, I mean ah, anyway, Bank of America said older investors hold a lot more traditional equities while younger groups hold more crypto and more alternative Investments. According to the report, 34% of younger people agree that it's no longer possible to achieve above-average returns with stocks and bonds alone compared to just one quarter of those Gen X and older. Similar to 2022 findings, this belief drives them to explore Alternatives such as cryptocurrencies and private Equity. There are a lot of videos going around and I mean if you

just so you know, if you have a brain and can read numbers, they ask younger people a lot, Why are you investing in, I mean, why are you investing in sneakers, sneakers, sneakers? It doesn't make any sense. Why are you investing in Pokemon cards or in sports cards? And then these PE, I mean, like, the younger people will look in the camera and they go, Because a home, a two-bedroom, is $780,000. They go, like, What, it would take for me to save up 15 to 20% for a mortgage and then be locked into that for a very long time. And I've seen so many countless things where people are like, Young people are lazy now. And it's like, Mary, you were able to buy a home for $58,000. If you were in the 80s, you might have gotten a home for $188,000. Like, home, like, everything is so much more expensive. So when they talk to these people, they're like, Listen, this is the only way that I can figure out how to make money. I refuse to be locked into

a 30-year mortgage that I also can't even pay for that the interest mate rate might rise for as As Time continues going forward, but you do see there are people who are buying sneakers for $150 a couple years later they're they're reselling them for maybe 2 3,000 you know it's not whatever, but it still adds up this is the other way so all all I'm saying is like don't knock other forms of investment because we're also in a very weird niche market compared to anything else that has existed for a very long time yeah I'm not surprised by any of these findings any of these numbers uh people are figuring out that hopefully they need to invest they need to put money away and I mean if we can be completely realistic the returns from crypto you need to be in the stock market for 10 to 15 years or you have to find one exact stock that is going to do well you can have great hindsight and be like well if you had invested in Nvidia

did you invest in Nvidia? Did you buy Amazon in 2001? Were you buying Apple stock in 1993? Hindsight is, of course, 2020 when you look back and you go, well, that was the stock to buy. Tell me, tell me, what stock right now is going to do 15,000 per increase in the next decade? Anywho, yeah, that's the study of wealthy Americans by Bank of America. We used to get a lot of these a number of years ago, but they were always kind of like Fringe-esque. They used to announce that people were into crypto, but not a lot of people, not a lot of people to actually think about it or even be concerned or worried. But like, of course, everyone's jumping into the market, or at least a lot of people are, and a lot more people will be over the course of the next 12 months or so. Yeah, that's the what people are doing with their money news. And yeah, let's move on. So I'm coupling this in.

uh the news that we've had over the course of the last week as well uh why aren't this how come that is this happening you'll understand in a couple of seconds so a lot of people keep trying to find a reason in the news is um as to why bitcoin's not at $700 million right now. We've had nearly every explanation in the book. However, this one made extra headlines. A lot of people assume that this was the actual reason for any Mega dips that we've been having and once again why bitcoin's not six figures on its way to seven figures. It says over the past two weeks long-term Bitcoin holders and people who mine Bitcoin have emerged as the largest sellers of BTC. These groups show little sign of new demand according to a report by on-chain analytics firm crypto Quant. Also in the news recently was the German government a wallet that was marked by the words German government by another company that was not the German government deposited their coins onto a crypto exchange and people said that

that was also the reason for a decline in price, which also makes no sense, because the ETFs have also seen the outflows. While we've seen a huge amount of whale activity as well. So, I mean, mega long story short, any time that there's been a selloff of any kind and prices have gone down, there's also been an equal amount of bought the dip news by whales. So, whatever got sold off also got repurchased by other people who were on the market as well. Crypto Quan monitoring of Bitcoin wallets revealed that whales, a term used to describe whales, have disposed of over $1.2 billion worth of bitcoin in the past two weeks. Sales were probably made through intermediaries rather than on the open market. The news that we had about people who are mining Bitcoin, for those of you who missed it, is that, oh gosh, what was it? I think, think they hold, no, no, I think it was that they held, I think it was 1.95 million Bitcoin, like all the crypto miners around the world, but I

think that number became 1.90. So 0.5 of their Bitcoin had been sold off to keep the lights on. That was also touted as news as to why Bitcoin was dropping. Bitcoin has an o an over it is it is over a trillion doll market cap and and this this will sound silly but selling off 1% no it's less than 1% is it not it's less than 1% of how much Bitcoin there is out there. If 1 billion dollar worth of bitcoin got sold, 100 billion would have to be bitcoin's market cap for 1% to have been sold. But Bitcoin has over a trillion dollar market cap. You understand what I'm saying. The the the the news that we keep getting is like someone sold 80 Million worth of bitcoin. Oh my gosh, Bitcoin has to Fall by 4% or this is why Bitcoin fell by 4%. Even $1 billion doll worth of bitcoin isn't even 1% of bitcoin's market cap. It would logically have no actual

movement on the price, we would see a movement down, but nothing as dramatic as people keep saying or how they're actually talking about it. I think you should be able to see almost this. I tried reformatting this website, and every time I did it, this like area also reformatted to be the exact same size, so you can't see over here as well. The point is, we're basically roughly around here. As far as long-term holders, there was a dip right here, and then we reot right back here. Actually, we're up above this all over again. So, people keep pretending that we're somewhere around here, that no one's holding any Bitcoin, that all the Bitcoin just keeps disappearing with the amount of people holding Bitcoin, and it's like no, we're totally fine. These numbers are totally okay. And in case you know anyone had any question about any of this, for those of you not looking at the screen, Bitcoin whales purchased $395 million worth of Bitcoin amid price

stagnation. This is also over a 24-hour period, so we are in a bit of a tizzy, bit of a wizzy, bit of a weird situation where um, we keep getting news or have been getting news in the last two weeks that there have been outflows for the ETFs, or that this government is selling, which is also fine if so, you know that at some point the governments might sell their crypto, right? You know that there's a point sometime in like maybe the year 2045 where Michael Saylor might use some of his own Bitcoin, right? People keep pretending that like governments, organizations, and companies are supposed to just buy and hold Bitcoin forever. You know if Bitcoin goes up to $17 million, you know that they're going to start using their Bitcoin, right? So everyone keeps getting really scared or telling other people to be really scared if people use their Bitcoin. We've had a tremendous amount, I mean multiple times in this market, where people have literally moved crypto from one wallet to another and

the price has dropped. Oh, also, don't forget, we also had news. Oh gosh, what was it? Was it six, seven days ago where Binance, one of their wallets, they moved Bitcoin from one wallet to another. Scandalous, I know. And then the price also fell from that as well. So yeah, they're doing a very good job of making sure that prices remain in flux or volatile as they continue buying behind the scenes as well and continue to do so. Never forget, before ETFs, our Market existed and it will still exist for as long as we have blockchain. So if we could move past the point of the um Futures 2.0 kind of thing where years ago people kept on pretending every Friday as Futures were expiring that we also had to go down in price, that would be wonderful because the Market's still strong, people are still buying. And I say this in the lightest, nicest way, you and your friends might not be buying, saying it a nice way, but understand.

$395 million over the course of a 24-hour period. There's still a lot of massive interest for Bitcoin. So that's the um today somebody tried to say why Bitcoin's price was dropping and I what it's probably not that reason cuz that that's reason number 95, okay, that's the whale news. I don't know, okay, let's move on. Also, in the news back in the news not talking about weird stuff that they were talking about before. Shebu is back. Yeah, Shbu burn rate keeps rising higher and higher, and I literally don't understand math at this point. According to statistics from the Shib burn website, the Shiba Inu burn rate increased by 3,275 in the last day alone. Over 232 million Sheba enu tokens were removed from circulation, a dramatic rise compared to just 1.37 million token burned the previous day. Yeah, Shib enu is back at it again because it keeps happening like all the time. Shibi enu, I don't know, they're, you know, once again, side note, uh.

we no longer have Dogecoin news. Two, we no longer have like burning Tera Luna news, which I also find like teral Luna is not in the news at all. Like they're not, they're not even remotely there. Shino continues to be there. We had some other days weeks ago where what was the news, uh, the person said they were doing something and some upgrade was happening and there's another protocol. I don't remember. There's some. There's anyway, yeah, cool, awesome. I guess it's nice to have them back. I was expecting more altcoin news. I still keep seeing a lot of people talk about Litecoin on Twitter. I see no Dogecoin talk at all. Um, I'm, I'm seeing more telegram also as well for some reason. Bitcoin and Ethereum are obviously always there. And depending on which corner you make a turn at, uh, you'll, you'll start finding a lot of like gripple and XRP news as well. But I guess once again as always a lot of the altcoins are.

probably waiting for a like significant boost in the market that'll uh that'll drag the news out so cool. I hope these people get their their their one two three four five C Shinu. I feel like at this point they kind of deserve it. They're they're the meme coin that has stood the test of time by burning hundreds of millions of coins every single day. I think think that is going to do it for this video. I do hope that you've all enjoyed. I do hope that you all are having a great day morning afternoon evening wherever you are wherever you might be. I do hope it is absolutely fantastic. Thank you all once again for watching listening liking commenting and supporting and I will most certainly be talking to you all soon. See you.

HUGE NEWS: The Wealthy Are Doing THIS With Their Money, The REAL REASON Crypto Is Acting SO WEIRD

The Modern Investor

The Shift Towards Crypto and Alternative Investments

Younger, more affluent individuals are favoring crypto and alternative investments, in contrast to the traditional focus of older generations, according to a recent Bank of America report.

The digital native upbringing of the younger generation, along with the ongoing wealth transfer, is driving the rapid movement of wealth into cryptocurrency and stocks.

Wealthy families and individuals are acquiring significant portions of cryptocurrency and are also heavily investing in the housing market, leading to a current, rather than future, wealth transfer.

The Shift in Investment Preferences Among Different Generations

Younger affluent individuals are more interested in investing in cryptocurrencies and alternative assets like Pokemon cards and sports cards, while older generations have traditionally focused on stocks, bonds, and real estate.

The younger generation prefers a diversified portfolio, while the older generation has been taught to prioritize safe and stable investments like low dividend stocks and bonds.

The change in investment mindset is influenced by a shift in the perception of what constitutes a viable investment strategy, with younger people seeking quicker and higher returns.

The Lack of Financial Education for Retirees

Older generations were never encouraged to save or invest, leading to financial insecurity in their retirement years.

The taboo around discussing money has hindered financial literacy and planning for the future.

The lack of practical financial education in schools has left many people unprepared for managing their finances and understanding investments.

Teaching children about finance from a young age is crucial for their understanding of money management.

The lack of financial education has led many people to struggle with savings and investments in their adult life.

A growing number of young investors are turning to alternative investments like cryptocurrency and private equity due to a belief that traditional stocks and bonds can no longer generate high returns.

Young people are turning to alternative investments like sneakers and Pokemon cards due to the skyrocketing cost of housing, making it difficult for them to save for a traditional mortgage.

The increasing expenses and the uncertainty of the housing market are pushing them towards unconventional ways of making money.

This shift in investment trends reflects the challenges of building wealth in the current financial environment.

Factors Influencing Bitcoin's Price Fluctuations

Long-term Bitcoin holders and miners have been significant sellers of BTC in the past two weeks, leading to a lack of new demand.

Whale activity in buying the dip has balanced out the selloffs, causing price fluctuations.

The selling of a small percentage of Bitcoin's total market cap is unlikely to have a significant impact on its price, despite the attention it receives in the news.

Bitcoin's price has remained relatively stable, with a significant purchase of $395 million worth of Bitcoin by whales during a 24-hour period.

Despite fears of outflows from ETFs and government selling, it is normal for entities to eventually use their Bitcoin holdings.

The market continues to show strength and activity, with ongoing behind-the-scenes buying, debunking misconceptions about its imminent collapse.

The Resurgence of Shiba Inu and Altcoin Trends

Shiba Inu's token burn rate has dramatically increased, with over 232 million tokens being removed from circulation in a single day.

Despite the lack of news coverage, altcoins like Litecoin, Ripple, and XRP are still prominent in the market, while Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to dominate the conversation.

The altcoin market is anticipated to make a significant comeback, with Shiba Inu leading the way with its consistent token burning.