Younger investors in Germany are now favoring crypto assets over precious metals like gold in their portfolios, a new survey has established.

The latter also reveals that representatives of more recent generations are increasingly relying on AI advice in deciding how to diversify their holdings.

Germany’s young lean towards cryptocurrency, listen to AI

Cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence (AI) are now shaping the investment behavior of young people in the Bundesrepublik, according to the study commissioned by Börse Stuttgart’s coin trading platform, BISON.

The representative survey has been carried out online by the market research firm Marketagent, among people aged 18 to 70.

Crypto overtaking gold as a means for diversification is one of its key findings, German crypto news outlet BTC Echo noted in a report on Wednesday.

Around 27% of those in the 30 to 39-year bracket invest in cryptocurrencies, compared to 24% acquiring precious metals.

What’s more, nearly half of the polled crypto investors, 48%, view their digital-asset holdings as long-term savings for retirement years.

Younger Germans are now often investing digitally and are increasingly supported by AI, the researchers have concluded.

Some 50% of the 19 to 29-year-olds see AI tools such as ChatGPT as important participants in their financial decisions.

The share of AI-reliant investors is much smaller among German citizens aged over 60, hovering around 12%, the publication detailed.

Investor confidence influenced by education and income

Marketagent is highlighting clear differences when it comes to the confidence of the different groups represented in study in the German financial market.

Every other respondent with a high school diploma trusts the financial industry, while the indicator drops to about a third of those without one.

The divide becomes even more pronounced when personal income is taken into account, the authors further noted.

55% of the well-earning Germans feel confident in the financial sector, but the percentage falls to 21 among people with below-average incomes.

The results of the crypto-focused survey come out after another recent study revealed that Germany’s crypto space is maturing.

Capital investors are now concentrating on quality rather than quantity, unveiled the latest edition of the German Blockchain Report, also quoted by BTC Echo.

Projects in the fields of regulated infrastructure, digital identity and tokenization are enjoying the most attention, the authors of that research emphasized.

Berlin, the capital of Europe’s economic powerhouse, has attracted the bulk of the $45 million of annual blockchain funding, show the figures published in November.

Digital assets are becoming a popular means of investment and store of value in times of increased inflation in other corners of the Old Continent as well.

A study carried out by one of the largest banking institutions in the post-Soviet space, Russia’s Sberbank, unveiled earlier this month that around 80% of Russians are familiar with cryptocurrency.

Nearly half of those with some knowledge about decentralized digital money plan to have a crypto wallet of their own in the near future, as reported by Cryptopolitan.

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