BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says history has rewarded long-term investors who stayed in the market and ignored bubble calls.
In a new CNBC interview, Fink predicts a structural shift in how global capital will flow, fueled by digital wallets and the rise of tokenized investment products.
According to the BlackRock executive, tokenization of traditional assets like real estate presents a massive opportunity for the asset management titan.
“But there’s $4.1 trillion of money sitting globally in digital wallets. A lot of that money is outside the United States. If we could tokenize an ETF, digitize that ETF, we could have investors who are just beginning to invest in markets through, let’s say, crypto, they’re investing in it, but now we can get them into the more traditional long-term retirement products.
We look at that as the next wave of opportunity for BlackRock over the next tens of years as we start focusing on moving away from traditional financial assets by repotting them in a digital manner and then having people stay in that digital ecosystem.”
Fink also addresses growing speculation that markets are overheated amid AI-fueled rallies. He argues that long-term investors should stay engaged regardless of short-term volatility.
“It is so compelling to be in the market. And this is the story. It’s not about if our market’s going up or down. Is there a bubble in crypto or a bubble in technology? It’s about being in the market throughout the cycle.”
To underscore his point, he cites a century of historical returns.
“Even if you put money in the United States in the year 1900, and then you had the Great Recession, you had the Depression, you had all these things, you would have earned over 9% over 125 years.”
Data from the Q2 2025 13-F filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that BlackRock holds $1.135 trillion in shares of the biggest names in AI, including Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), and Amazon (AMZN).
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