Big Money is BUYING HEAVY Here (Actual Portfolios of the 1% in 2026)

After doing heavy research to see where are all the biggest investors investing their money, there's three central themes, three places that a lot of huge institutional investors are investing their money. But first, I wanted to show you a bunch of famous investors portfolios. I follow an account called Carbon Finance on Instagram where he breaks down the latest 13F filings and visualizes the portfolios of legendary investors. So, these are a couple of the portfolios of a couple very famous and very large investors as of Q1 2026. First is Bill Aman, the American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and the founder and CEO of Persing Square Capital Management. First here is Brookfield Corporation focused on real estate, credit, renewable power, and transition. He's also got a huge stake in Uber, Amazon, Google, Meta. Next is Bill Gates, who needs no introduction. His top holding there is Berkshire Hathaway. Then we got Waste Management. Very safe there. CNI, Microsoft, and Caterpillar. Next is a gentleman named Chase Coleman. If you haven't heard about him, he's a young American billionaire hedge fund manager, founder of Tiger Global Management that manages about $50 billion in public and private equity. He's got a couple of the main staples there as well, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia. And as you can see so far, these investors, there's a couple of portfolio positions that are outsized compared to the rest. And they do usually hold a bunch of other holdings in very small amounts and usually even more than what's on the little visual there. But in general, one of the things to watch out for and to look at is these big huge investors are betting very big on a couple of individual positions. The next person here needs no introduction as well, and this is Warren Buffett. He's got Apple. He's got American Express, Bank of America CocaCola Chevron Moody's then a bunch of other much smaller positions. Next is Chris Han, who's a British billionaire hedge fund manager known for founding TCI Fund Management. He's one of the world's most successful investors, managing roughly $75 billion in assets with a focus on long-term investments in companies with high barriers to entry. Notice this one here. He's very concentrated on just a few. He doesn't have a bunch of small positions. He's got big positions in a small couple of companies. General Electric, Visa, Microsoft, Moody's, S&P Global. These are the biggest ones there. And just like I said, he's focusing on long-term investments in companies with high barriers to entry. It's going to be very hard to compete with Visa. It's going to be very hard to compete with General Electric and Microsoft. I really like his style of investing. And later on, I'm going to show you a portfolio of someone you've probably never heard before. His name's Leo Ashen Brener and he's a 24year-old betting huge on AI, but not how you may think. I'm going to show you that one a little bit later because I'm going to go a little bit deeper. You're going to want that deep dive because his portfolio is definitely the most interesting, especially right now. But lastly, here is Harvard, the university Harvard stock portfolio. Look at their largest holding. IBIT, which is the Bitcoin ETF. They're also very heavy in Google, Gold, and Microsoft, but you can see there they're in a couple of very specific companies. And then also AI with some Nvidia and some Taiwan Semiconductor. Definitely a different portfolio than you probably thought that Harvard would have, especially with that number one being Bitcoin. Now, I show you all these and there's definitely more and you can definitely check that out with Carbon Finance and on his Instagram. But I want to show you that most of these investors are investing similarly, but then somewhat very, very different. Like I said before, through my research, and much more research than what I just showed you, there's three main areas that huge investors are investing in right now. And that first theme is what we just saw at Harvard because they're definitely not alone. And that's Bitcoin and crypto. Goldman Sachs just filed for a Bitcoin ETF. Morgan Stanley already launched one. European banks like in Tesla are directly investing in Bitcoin related assets. Obviously, Strategy Inc. and Michael Sailor are buying up all the Bitcoin they can along with Tesla as Tesla owns almost $1 billion in Bitcoin as a company. And now, if you're interested in learning more about this sector specifically, 21 Shares has a bunch of education and information to learn more. Thank you to 21 Shares for sponsoring today's video. 21 Shares is one of the world's leading crypto ETP providers providing access to digital assets through exchange traded products. 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Now, the second place that mega investors are throwing money in investing is in AI, but specifically the picks and shovels part of AI. Not just the mainline companies, but specifically infrastructure. Most of those portfolios that I showed you from earlier and a lot of big investors have companies that are investing very heavy into AI like Microsoft, like Nvidia, like Meta, Amazon, Google, all of these types of things. But more and more the investors that are trying to get even more growth and even more opportunity to not just get a 5x 10x but maybe a 100x on their investment. These investors are investing in the picks and shovels in the infrastructure of AI deeply. None more than Leo Ashen Brener and his fund situational awareness LP. By 2025, just four years after graduating from Colombia, Ashen Brener was controlling over $1.5 billion dollars in investments and had become a kind of profit of the AI age. Now, his strategy was straightforward. He was betting on companies that were supposed to profit and grow in global AI. Basically, semiconductors infrastructure power companies, and he was shorting on industries that could lag behind. Well, his fund now reports roughly $5.5 billion in US equity exposure spread across nearly 30 holdings. Something that I really like to see is that Ashen Brener has invested almost all of his own net worth in the fund. The fund held large positions in semiconductors such as Intel and Broadcom as well as the VANX semiconductor ETF alongside power producers including Vistra and Constellation Energy. The fund also has positions heavy in data infrastructure and crypto mining firms such as Core Scientific, Irene, and Applied Digital, companies that operate massive power- hungry computing facilities originally built for Bitcoin mining, but increasingly being repurposed for AI workloads. Large mining operators are increasingly repositioning their highdensity facilities as AI hosting hubs, reflecting a shift from valuing raw Bitcoin hash rate to valuing access to electricity and data center capacity in the new AI compute economy. The latest filings are showing that his strategy is actually sharpening specifically around these themes, particularly electricity generation in companies that control large pools of computing power. Among the newer expanded positions are Bloom Energy, a fuel cell power company that's now the fund's single largest holding, Coreweave, an AI cloud infrastructure provider, and Cipher Mining, another large crypto mining firm. Now, obviously, this type of investing and this one is a lot different than the other ones that I showed you, and this one's definitely a bit more speculative and also obviously risky. So, I dug just a little bit deeper to figure out where is this coming from? And I found this essay that he wrote that was just amazing. Leo wrote a very famous 165page monograph titled situational awareness the decade ahead. He sketched a future he claimed was visible only to a few hundred people most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs. Not surprisingly he included himself among those situational awareness while the rest of the world had not the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. This guy has a deep background being one of the original people to help with open AI and he's a brilliant mind in the world of AI and he's saying that we don't even know what's coming and that's why he's investing everything he has into these types of companies. Now the last place that mega investors are dumping money is actually not even in the stock market. Institutions are betting on financial system instability, persistent inflation risk, and geopolitical fragmentation. So, they're buying things that can't be printed. And I've talked about that so much on this channel. The reason they're doing this is because currently there's currency debasement fears, rising global debt, and inflation is still sticky. So, the first place that they're putting this money is gold. And this is an institutional hedge, not retail hype. The gold ETF inflows have been massive and persistent. In January 2026 alone, we saw about $19 billion in inflows. Central banks are buying 750 to 800 tons annually. The second thing institutions and people are buying in this category is other metals and commodities, specifically copper and metals rising due to AI and infrastructure demand. The commodities markets are small versus equities, so flows move prices fast. And third in this category is real estate, like hard actual real estate, but then other real assets. And I've talked about that a lot on this channel, too. And it's what I do personally with rental properties. I think it's great to diversify the portfolio. I do think that ETFs is still the way to go in the stock market. 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