[서울신문] One in two rich people “The real estate economy will deteriorate this year”

Hana Financial Group, surveyed 1,400 financial assets
Still prefer stocks and deposits… “Maintain the proportion of investment”

About half of the wealthy Koreans with financial assets of 100 million won or more predicted that the real estate market would not improve this year.

On the 8th, Hana Bank’s Hana Financial Management Research Center conducted an online survey conducted in December of last year on 700 Korean wealthy people (having more than 1 billion won in financial assets) and 1,400 people in the’massive wealthy’ (having more than 100 million won and less than 1 billion won). Based on this, the report was published, ‘2021 Korean Wealth Report: Wealth Management Trends for the Rich and the Rich.

According to the report, 61% of the rich and the masses were negative about the real economic outlook for this year. 49.5% said’it will not improve’ and 11.5% said’it will not improve very much’. Only 22% of respondents answered’will be good’ (21.3%) and’will be very good’ (0.6%).

For the rich and the rich, the outlook for the real estate market this year was generally negative. Negative outlooks such as’Not going to improve’ (42.8%) and’Not going to be very good’ (9.5%) accounted for 52%. Only 17% said that it would be’good’ (16.2%) and’very good’ (0.8%).

Based on this perspective, the rich and the rich showed a reserved attitude to asset rebalancing (asset weighting) this year. Looking at the “Top 5” financial products planned for this year’s investment plan by the rich and the rich, they still prefer term deposits and short-term financial products amid the continued preference for stocks. For the rich, short-term financial products (21%), bank term deposits (19%), index-linked securities, trusts and funds (17%), direct investment in stocks (15%), overseas stocks, foreign bonds, and dollars (8%) In order.

Reporter Yoon Yeon-jung [email protected]