Edward Wolf explains how wealth is distributed across income tiers: middle class wealth is concentrated in traditional stocks; high-income households allocate about 25% to alternatives; the most wealthy aim for ~50% in alternatives. Real estate allocations are cited around 20–26% for some groups. The talk emphasizes diversifying into lesser-known alternative investments to build a foundation that reduces simultaneous drawdowns, especially after recent interest rate hikes.
Edward Wolf presents what are locations of call it the middle class, the high income earners and the ultra wealthy. And what you'll see is that almost, almost entirely the wealth for the middle class is in traditional stocks. Right. That's the case because it's retirement account. It's a high income. You get about 25% of it into alternatives, which alternatives being outside of what we would call the stock market to the more wealthy. You see, they're aiming for 50% of that. 50%. Only about 20, 24, 26% of that is in real estate. Maybe there's other alternative allocations that people need to look for. And that's really where we focus. They're those lesser known ones where you build that true foundation where you know, you won't be down all at the same time. Especially today, we find ourselves in a situation where we just finished an interest rate hike.
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