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Crypto Is the Most-Held Asset Among Gen Z and Millennial Investors: Here's What They Should Buy Next

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It turns out cryptocurrencies -- not stocks -- were the most-held assets among this age cohort. And younger investors showed a clear preference for holding individual stocks rather than mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). They showed much more of a preference for holding individual stocks.

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Is Berkshire Hathaway a Millionaire Maker?

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At the end of the day, Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate. But it's not like most other conglomerates, either. So the company is almost like a mutual fund. His comment about not being able to find needle-moving investments is being made in 2024 when the stock market is near all-time highs.

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Berkshire Hathaway's Beating the Market, But Its Biggest Holdings Aren't. What Gives?

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If it's not coming from Berkshire's biggest stock positions, where's all of this value coming from? It's an often-forgotten detail about Berkshire Hathaway, but it's not a mutual fund. It's a conglomerate that just so happens to use much of its idle cash to hold stocks of publicly traded companies.

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What's on Jamie Dimon's Mind?

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That was a cycle where there was a lot of inflation, and his point was we just had a ton of quantitative easing that boosted the stock market, and it's hard for me to believe that years of quantitative tightening will not have the reverse effect. The stock market has rarely returned exactly 10% in any single year.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q2 2024

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are buying/adding Ulta Beauty (ULTA) Ulta Beauty caught Berkshire’s eye in the most recent quarter, and the conglomerate opened a position in the purveyor of beauty products, albeit a relatively small 690,000 shares. The conglomerate still owns nearly 4.7 Here are some funds worth tracking closely. billion as of June 30.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q4 2023

Pension Pulse

Having said this, the stock market is incredibly concentrated in a few names and the risks of something bad hitting us are on the rise here, which is why you should all take these 13F filings with a grain of salt here. Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely.

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If I Could Only Buy and Hold a Single Stock, This Would Be It.

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Some may then wonder why they should bother buying Berkshire stock when they can just get a mix of the overall stock market by owning index mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In fact, in addition to the individual stocks, Berkshire also holds two different S&P 500 index ETFs in its portfolio.