Today, I want to point out an $8.8 trillion opportunity for you in your practice. As you may be aware, interest rates jumped up as of late, they've been kind of holding in, and they are potentially going to be declining here again in the near future. But that spike up made a flood of clients/investors pull money out of the markets, and push money into money markets and CDs. And as the Wall Street Journal reported, at the end of 2023, there was $8.8 trillion in CDs and money markets. This is unheard of, you don't see that kind of money going into those vehicles, especially in the rapid sense in which it did.
So this is a graphic from that same article. Look at the spike on the far right - that is recent times. And that is the spike up that took place in money markets and CDs. Money markets is the light blue and then they tack on the CDs and you're up to $8.8 trillion. That is a lot of what is referred to on Wall Street as as "dry powder". That money is getting antsy, that money is going to get invested back into the markets. It's just a matter of who's going to help the investors do that.
May I suggest it should be you.
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