Age of Major Investors and Big Money

[Garpal Gumnut]

I was much taken by this graph of the age distribution of investors globally when I posted on WDS and commented " My vision for WDS is mid-term, which will see me out". While this comment is hyperbole to be honest it must play some part in my investment decisions. I do like to see the results of my picks in stocks or other markets. So I would guess my decision making would be skewed accordingly, so that in the time left to me, a maximum of 15-20 useful years, my time frame for "my picks" would accordingly be 8-15 years to be on the safe side taking in to account the outside possibility of dying in a plane crash or being exhausted by a 30 year old French heiress who lives in a château overlooking St. Tropez suddenly taking a sexual interest in me and thus exhausting me before my expiry date.

I thus searched for the distribution of billionaires by age and came upon this useful graph. A pie chart of billionaires by age. I was comforted by sitting in age with some heavy hitters. Would they have similar thoughts and expectations to me? If so, would their investment decisions be skewed towards short to mid term rewards? And would this skew the investment in ICE and other fossil fuel stocks over EV and new energy stocks.





gg

 

[Sean K]

Everyone is a bit different I suppose. Some people live to work and their investment horizon is till death. I haven't worked for 4 years.

Mid term for me is 5-10 years which will take me to 60-65 and I'll hopefully be more passive investing while travelling any time I like. I'm expecting another bull market in that time frame after we navigate through this dog's breakfast of post GFC and Covid money printing, socialist, climate alarmism. I'm under intensive medical oversight which means I should not die of an unexpected cancer, which I can't discount, but I should make it to 80 due to modern medical procedures and medication.

I do not expect to make it into that pie chart unless gold goes tulip to $100,000 an ounce.

 

[Value Collector]

Munger was thinking long term right up until he died a month before his 100th birthday, and long term for him is probably 100 years.

 

[divs4ever]

Everyone is a bit different I suppose. Some people live to work and their investment horizon is till death. I haven't worked for 4 years.

Mid term for me is 5-10 years which will take me to 60-65 and I'll hopefully be more passive investing while travelling any time I like. I'm expecting another bull market in that time frame after we navigate through this dog's breakfast of post GFC and Covid money printing, socialist, climate alarmism. I'm under intensive medical oversight which means I should not die of an unexpected cancer, which I can't discount, but I should make it to 80 due to modern medical procedures and medication.

I do not expect to make it into that pie chart unless gold goes tulip to $100,000 an ounce.

well by my guesstmates i am about 999 or 998 ( million ) short of making the chart , but then my chances of living another 30 years aren't exciting either