Over time they've acquired a mixed bag of financial assets, including some once-hot tech stocks.

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It may be that hot, fast money prefers liquidity to hard assets right now, especially if leverage is involved.

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One of the reasons the China real estate market is so hot is because wealthy Chinese are buying up property to hold onto real assets, rather than put money in low yielding bank bonds and volatile equities.

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Ranch insiders say the recent hot market for these trophy properties is driven by investors desire to find hard assets for their cash.

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