Political dysfunction poses the biggest threat to millionaires’ personal wealth, according to CNBC’s latest Millionaire Survey.
The poll shows that the largest number of millionaire investors, 37 percent, said that problems within the government threaten their wealth the most, with the stock market close behind at 32 percent.
And while 40 percent of millionaires say the economy will remain strong in 2019, and 28 percent say it will be stronger than this year, views on the economy are split along party lines. 41 percent of Republican millionaires are optimistic about the economy next year, while only 8 percent of Democratic millionaires think the economy will improve.
The survey also found that more than half of millionaire investors think that the S&P 500 will rise more than 5 percent in 2019, while 20 percent think it’ll be even. Most expected returns on their own investments, with 37 percent expecting between 4 percent and 5.9 percent and 30 percent expecting more than 6 percent, while only 4 percent of those polled expected to be down.
However, 37 percent of millionaires think that their children will be worse off than they are in the future, compared to only one-third who think their children will be better off.
Spectrem Group polled 750 investors with $1 million or more in assets available for investment across the United States
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