{"id":836487,"date":"2025-03-24T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/billionaire-ricardo-salinas-shifts-70-of-liquid-assets-to-bitcoin-shuns-bonds-in-bold-investment-pivot\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:12:24","slug":"billionaire-ricardo-salinas-shifts-70-of-liquid-assets-to-bitcoin-shuns-bonds-in-bold-investment-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/billionaire-ricardo-salinas-shifts-70-of-liquid-assets-to-bitcoin-shuns-bonds-in-bold-investment-pivot\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Ricardo Salinas Shifts 70% of Liquid Assets to Bitcoin, Shuns Bonds in Bold Investment Pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"blockquote-block_9c17bbc0d3fcf381457b59d6a34f8026\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Salinas now holds 70% of his liquid portfolio in Bitcoin, with the remainder in gold and gold miners, and no exposure to bonds or stocks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>He is considering delisting Grupo Elektra to address tax challenges, which aligns with his preference for alternative assets over traditional investments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Salinas recommends dollar-cost averaging for average investors to mitigate short-term fluctuations in the crypto market.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mexican entrepreneur and billionaire Ricardo Salinas said he has around 70% exposure in <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/category\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin (BTC)<\/a>, as per a recent Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-04\/ricardo-salinas-pliego-on-elektra-delisting-bitcoin-mexico-tariffs\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Salinas revealed that Bitcoin-related investments now constitute about 70% of his liquid portfolio, with the remaining 30% in gold and gold miners. This represents a 10% increase <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RicardoBSalinas\/status\/1328895703486255104\">compared<\/a> to 2020 amid the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<div id=\"blockquote-block_e40e79b7c2fa56e39863965b91fdcce6\">\n<p><em>In my personal portfolio, the one I manage myself\u2026 Yeah, I\u2019m pretty much all-in. I\u2019ve got about 70% in Bitcoin-related exposure and 30% in gold and gold miners. (\u2026) I don\u2019t have a single bond and I don\u2019t have any other stocks except my own.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-eio=\"l\" data-old-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2025\/03\/05115533\/Ricardo-Salinas.jpg\">        Ricardo Salinas    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/trumps-crypto-reserve-plan-faces-uncertain-future-with-potential-congress-vote-126934\/\"><strong>Trump\u2019s Crypto Reserve Plan Faces Uncertain Future with Potential Congress Vote<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-it-s-not-going-anywhere-except-up\">It\u2019s Not Going Anywhere Except Up<\/h2>\n<p>The billionaire\u2019s latest move comes at a time when he is also considering delisting his flagship firm, Grupo Elektra, from the public market, and therefore easing tax-related challenges with the Mexican government. As Mexico\u2019s fifth richest person, Salinas controls an expansive portfolio of banking, retail and telecommunications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His aggressive stance on cryptocurrency is consistent with his broader investment philosophy, which praises alternative assets over traditional bonds and stocks. For instance, his long-term vision for Bitcoin is:<\/p>\n<div id=\"blockquote-block_9513e9dc01293492db1ef48a276fea62\">\n<p><em>You have to think about 10 years and buy everything you can\u2026 it\u2019s not going anywhere except up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-eio=\"l\" data-old-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2025\/03\/05115533\/Ricardo-Salinas.jpg\">        Ricardo Salinas    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, Salinas recommends that average investors should consider using a dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy to mitigate short-term volatility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/crypto-rally-reverses-with-double-digit-losses-amid-market-crash-126938\/\"><strong>Crypto Rally Reverses with Double-Digit Losses Amid Market Crash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking about volatility, Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market have plummeted quite abruptly, with BTC falling from US$93K (AU$148K) to US$82K (AU$130K), nearly a 10% decrease in just 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the crypto market cap tanked from 3.2T (AU$5.1T) to about US$2.7T (AU$4.30T), as per <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/charts\/\">data<\/a> from CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Jos\u00e9 Oramas <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/billionaire-ricardo-salinas-shifts-70-of-liquid-assets-to-bitcoin-shuns-bonds-in-bold-investment-pivot-127035\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salinas now holds 70% of his liquid portfolio in Bitcoin, with the remainder in gold and gold miners, and no exposure to bonds or stocks. He is considering delisting Grupo Elektra to address tax challenges, which aligns with his preference for alternative assets over traditional investments. Salinas recommends dollar-cost averaging for average investors to mitigate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,79806],"tags":[11476],"class_list":{"0":"post-836487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-billionaire","8":"category-ricardo","9":"tag-bitcoins"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}