This ain’t your usual Wall Street mumbo jumbo. Ric Edelman, the big boss behind a $300 billion investment advisory empire, just dropped a bombshell that’s shaking up the whole portfolio game.
Forget the old-school 60/40 stock-to-bond mix, it’s dead, kaput. The new king? Crypto.
XThe end of the old ways?
And not just a tiny slice, no sir. Edelman says you should be packing up to 40% of your portfolio in crypto assets. Forty freakin’ percent.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. Crypto? That insane, volatile stuff? That’s just for the risk junkies!
Nah, my friend. Edelman’s flipping the script, and claims that not owning crypto is the real gamble these days. It’s like showing up to the office without your coffee, just not smart.
The guy’s been named America’s top Independent Financial Advisor three times by Barron’s, so this ain’t some basement blogger talk.
If you’re an aggressive investor, Edelman says go big, 40% crypto. Moderate? 25%. Playing it safe? Still 10%.
Even the most cautious should get a taste. Why? Because a market-weighted index with all asset classes only holds about 3% crypto. So if you’re sitting on zero, you’re basically betting against it.
That’s like refusing to join the office fantasy football league and then complaining you missed out on the fun.
Performance
Edelman’s argument? Bitcoin has outperformed every other asset class for 15 years straight and shows no sign of slowing down.
Portfolios with Bitcoin have delivered higher returns and lower risks. It’s like finding out the quiet guy in accounting is secretly the MVP of the company softball team, unexpected but undeniable.
And get this, Edelman isn’t just whispering this advice to his clients.
He’s calling out other financial advisors who shy away from crypto, saying if they’re scared their clients will fire them for recommending it, they’ve got a conflict of interest. Boom. Mic drop.
Supply and demand
The crypto industry took notice. Bloomberg’s ETF analyst Eric Balchunas called it ten out of ten on the wow scale, and said it’s the strongest crypto endorsement from traditional finance since Larry Fink.
This is 10/10 on the wow scale, would you agree? (I think less obv to most as advisors much less known vs fund mgrs but if you know that world this is huge)
— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) June 30, 2025
Of course, some Bitcoin purists grumbled about the term crypto instead of just Bitcoin, but hey, even the family squabbles can’t drown out the message.
And you may ask why now? Institutional money is flooding in, tens of billions of dollars in spot Bitcoin ETFs alone, with more than 70 crypto ETF proposals waiting for the SEC’s nod.
Plus, regulatory shifts, stablecoin growth, and simple supply-demand dynamics are pushing prices.
Edelman even floated the idea Bitcoin could hit $500,000 someday. That’s supply and demand, baby.
