6 Ways to Protect Your Wealth From Inflation, Explained

Ninety-seven percent of top-income families held stock in one central bank's 2025 survey. The video looks at six ways to protect wealth from inflation, from knowing your own inflation rate to building skills that raise your income, and comes back to those families at number five. Results vary, and rules differ where you live.

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How to Protect Your Money From Inflation (Official Data): https://youtu.be/NCKjORQOTWU

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:31 1. Your own inflation rate
2:21 2. A cash reserve that earns interest
4:20 3. Inflation-linked government bonds
6:15 4. Fixed or variable rates on debt
8:24 5. Diversified long-term ownership
10:55 6. Skills that raise your income
12:56 Recap

Sources
- A central bank's page on its two per cent inflation target and the purchasing power of money: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/strategy/pricestab/html/index.en.html
- The same central bank's page on measuring inflation with a basket of goods and services: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/macroeconomic_and_sectoral/hicp/html/index.en.html
- A statistics office's note on calculating your personal inflation rate: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/976-calculate-your-personal-inflation-rate
- The same statistics office's personal inflation calculator page: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015-eng.htm
- A central bank's report on its survey of family finances, October 2026 (amounts adjusted for inflation; certificates of deposit held by 10.7 percent of families in 2025, up from 6.5 percent in 2022; stock held by 97 percent of families in the top decile of usual income in 2025; the real value of equity holdings rose for each income group from 2022 to 2025): https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf26.pdf
- A markets regulator's investor page, Build Wealth Over Time Through Saving and Investing: https://www.investor.gov/build-wealth-over-time-through-saving-and-investing
- The same regulator's Beginners' Guide to Asset Allocation, Diversification, and Rebalancing: https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/general-resources/publications-research/info-sheets/beginners-guide-asset
- A central bank's explainer on interest rate changes and what they mean for loans and savings: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb-and-you/explainers/html/interest-rates-changes.en.html
- A treasury's page on its inflation-protected bonds: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/marketable-securities/tips/
- A markets regulator's investor bulletin on fixed income investments and interest rate risk: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-resources/news-alerts/alerts-bulletins/investor-bulletins-86
- A central bank's borrowing guide, Fixed Vs. Variable Interest Rates: What's the Difference?: https://www.centralbank.org.bb/news/moneysmart-borrowing/fixed-vs-variable-interest-rates-what-s-the-difference
- A central banker's speech, Inflation and household income distribution (2023), published by an international organization of central banks: https://www.bis.org/speeches/20230901-inflation-and-household-income-distribution
- An international development bank's review, Returns to Investment in Education: A Decennial Review of the Global Literature (2018; the private average global rate of return to one extra year of schooling is about 9 percent a year): https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/442521523465644318/pdf/WPS8402.pdf
- A public careers service's skills assessment page (the assessment takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete): https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/discover-your-skills-and-careers

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