The Short Version: What the peer network for investors with $100M+ in net worth is doing with their money in 2026… and why it’s surprisingly boring The behavioral trait that separates people who stay wealthy from people who earn a lot but never quite get there Why the gap between how wealthy people invest and how everyone else invests has almost nothing to do with access or sophistication The asset categories the ultra-wealthy are quietly moving back toward… and how regular investors can access the same types of deals TIGER 21 is a peer network for people with serious money. Members average over $100 million in net worth. These are not people who need tips. They have advisors, family offices, access to anything. So when Michael Sonnenfeldt, the organization’s founder, told CNBC that his members are going ‘back to basics’ in 2026, it’s worth paying attention to what ‘basics’ means at that level. Long-term investments in businesses, real estate and diversified hard assets. No market timing. No exotic strategies. Commitment over cleverness. This is worth sitting with for a moment. The people with the most access to the most sophisticated financial products in the world are voluntarily choosing the least complicated version of investing available. What They’re Not Doing Before getting to the specifics, it’s worth clearing up what the ultra-wealthy are generally not doing with their money, despite what financial media might suggest. They’re not day trading. They’re not rotating between sectors based on quarterly earnings. They’re not chasing whatever asset class got the most attention in the last twelve months. They’re not making concentrated bets on single positions based on a conviction that they can predict what markets do next. The ones who stay wealthy treat market timing as a fool’s errand. Sonnenfeldt put it directly: if you don’t know whether a stock is a better buy at 15 than at 20, you shouldn’t be in that stock. This is a discipline that sounds simple and is remarkably hard to practice when markets are moving and financial media is generating daily urgency. What They’re Actually Doing The pattern that shows up consistently among genuinely wealthy long-term investors looks like this. They hold real assets. Not primarily stocks or crypto, but businesses, real estate, land and private investments backed by something tangible. These assets produce cash flow that doesn’t depend on market sentiment to exist. When the stock market drops 30%, an apartment building with paying tenants still pays its investors. They commit for the long term and mean it. This is harder than it sounds. A five-year investment hold sounds perfectly reasonable until the second year brings bad news, a paper loss, or a better-looking opportunity somewhere else. The wealthy investors who compound most reliably are the ones who made the decision once and didn’t keep re-making it. They focus relentlessly on downside. The question they ask before every investment is not ‘how much can I make?’ but ‘how

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Ericka Barnes first appeared on the Journey to Launch podcast in 2019 to share how she reached financial independence in her mid-30s. Since then, her life has looked nothing like a straight line; divorce, layoffs, a new marriage, and a second retirement later, she’s back to share the full story. In this brand new episode, Ericka walks us through what she’s been up to since our last conversation, from rebuilding financially after a divorce, to […]