That old line — you either own paper or you own hard assets — made sense in a world where inflation cycles were shorter, balance sheets were smaller, and capital still respected gravity. I heard it constantly when I started in this business back in 1982. You picked a side. Paper meant you thought growth was coming. Hard assets meant you thought trouble was coming.What’s changed is not the rule, but the environment it operates in.As we head into the final stretch of 2025, both stocks and precious metals are ...

Mapping out the future of finance at Ripple Swell 2025 included themes such as: https://t.co/GoV9PFntiU→ Utility is the first priority→ Financial assets are all moving onchain→ Institutional adoption has already crossed the experimentation threshold→ Global regulatory standards are the inevitable policy frontier ...

Investment Portfolio - Japan's corporate pension funds hold over 500 billion USD in global financial assets [1] Investment Behavior - These funds are considered "silent investors" due to their passive approach to investment management [1] - They tend to passively follow managers' investment decisions [1]