New survey reveals 83% of millennial millionaires now own crypto

Dec 17, 2021

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2021 has confirmed to be the yr of crypto adoption the place institutional crypto investments and millennials turning millionaires have been acquainted headlines.

A brand new CNBC survey has revealed {that a} majority of millennial millionaires have invested a major chunk of their portfolio in crypto and plan to proceed their crypto investments in 2022. The survey polled buyers with belongings of $1 million or extra, and 83% of the polled millennial millionaires revealed that they had made crypto investments.

53% of complete survey respondents mentioned they maintain 50% or extra of their portfolio in crypto. Practically one-third of the respondents have invested no less than three-quarters of their wealth in crypto belongings. Whereas the ballot outcomes would possibly come as a shock to many, those that have been following the crypto growth in 2021 would know the way a era of TikTok buyers made tens of millions of {dollars} on investments in meme currencies.

The CNBC survey additionally revealed an enormous generational hole when it comes to funding. On one aspect, millennials are investing as excessive as 50% of their wealth in crypto, whereas on the opposite aspect, solely 4% of the older era have invested in digital belongings and solely one-fourth of the GenX owns crypto.

George Walper, president of Spectrem Group that performed the survey for CNBC, mentioned the brand new era’s rising curiosity within the nascent crypto market may show to be a problem for wealth managers. He believes these conventional managers must rethink their method in direction of these upcoming buyers. He defined:

“I’m undecided the wealth administration trade has acknowledged that they want to consider these as utterly completely different generations. Most corporations have been hoping to disregard it. However millennial millionaires should not going to only develop out of crypto.”

The survey additionally highlighted how the brand new era is keen to take extra dangers with crypto moderately than investing in conventional markets. The survey revealed that 48% of millennial millionaires plan so as to add to their crypto investments whereas 38% plan to carry and solely 6% plan to cut back their crypto publicity within the coming yr.

Aside from a surge in crypto millennial millionaires within the US, Australia has additionally seen a ten% development in crypto adoption over the previous yr. The 2021 Unbiased Reserve’s Cryptocurrency Index (IRCI) that surveyed 2000 folks discovered the crypto funding amongst Australians has grown to twenty-eight.8%, up from 18.4% in 2020.