The Stock Market Crash? 🚨 – Simple Strategies to Protect Your Wealth NOW
In this urgent episode of the Payne Points of Wealth, Bob, Ryan, Chris & Courtney dive deep into the recent stock market sell-off and its implications for your investment portfolio. With uncertainty over tariffs, economic and earnings growth high, it’s more critical than ever to allocate your hard-earned money properly. Join us as we explore commonsense strategies to protect your portfolio during these turbulent times. From broadening out your investment exposure to understanding how to properly safeguard your assets, we share our playbook and insights to help you navigate the current financial storm. Don’t miss out on this essential guide to securing your financial future!
Hidden Facts of Finance
One private equity benchmark beat the S&P 500 index in 22 out of 23 years from 1998 to 2020, according to Morningstar. But that was only driven by a few stellar funds. Much like tech stocks such as Nvidia have driven stock market returns. There’s a lot of focus on superb private equity funds, but they’re mainly in minority.
Global alternative assets under management are expected to grow to 29.2 trillion by 2029. That’s up 74% from the 16.8 trillion at the end of 2023, according to research firm Preqin.
In the 1980s, the Japanese held corporate dominance. Publicly traded Japanese companies rose to 40% of the world’s stock market by 1989 versus the U.S. at 29%. But it turned out to be a huge, giant asset bubble. Japan today is only 6% of the total world stock market. Today the United States, on the other hand, is 42.5%, very similar to Japan in the 1980s. Could we be in the same position today? Is the U.S. in a big bubble?
