Financial Advisors Are All-In On Bitcoin Now | Ric Edelman
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ric Edelman is the Founder of Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals, and he is a New York Times #1 best seller of 13 different books. In this conversation we talk about why financial advisors are finally getting excited about bitcoin, conversations they are having with their clients, the death of 60/40, gold, currency debasement, and why Ric has recommended having 10-40% exposure to bitcoin.
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TimeStamps:
- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:14 - How financial advisors should think about bitcoin
- 6:24 - The best ways to get exposure to bitcoin
- 9:35 - The death of 60/40 and bitcoin should be 40%?
- 18:25 - Should gold be in your portfolio?
22:22 - How to think about technology impact on financial advisors - 24:18 - How financial advisors should explain currency debasement
- 26:45 - What do financial advisors think about other coins?
- 32:15 - How to think about staking
- 33:57 - What are the last obstacles financial advisors need to overcome?
- 41:33 - What is Ric’s focus for the next year?
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| 1:02.0 | market is 60 trillion in assets, which it is in the U.S., and the bond market is about 40 trillion |
| 1:08.1 | in assets, you know, it's worth about 100 trillion, 110 trillion. That's the |
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| 1:18.7 | $3 trillion, pushing $4 trillion in assets. That would argue that... What's going on, guys? Today we got a |
| 1:25.8 | great episode with Rick Edelman. He is the founder of the Digital Assets Council for Financial Professionals, and he is a New York Times number one bestseller of 13 different books. The guy's also in the Barron's Hall of Fame of Financial Advisors. He knows what he's talking about. He's here to explain. What's going on with financial advisors? Why are they finally getting excited about Bitcoin? What is going on with the way that they're allocating portfolio construction, the conversations they're having with their clients? And also what some of the mistakes are that people are making? And then Rick tells us, why the heck is he recommending the people? 10 to 40% in their portfolio of Bitcoin and digital assets, all that and much more. Rick is always |
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