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网红里的巴菲特:TikTok博主讲理财收获330万粉丝,实际仅有1.5年理财经验

网红里的巴菲特:TikTok博主讲理财收获330万粉丝,实际仅有1.5年理财经验

JANE THIER 2022-08-09
他成功的秘诀在于将复杂的金融问题说得浅显易懂。

汉弗莱·杨(Humphrey Yang)是比沃伦•巴菲特(Warren Buffett)更值得Z世代信任的理财顾问大师。图片来源:COURTESY OF HUMPHREY YANG

在一段有1450万点击量的TikTok视频中,汉弗莱·杨讲了一位父亲给儿子一部iPhone 13,条件是一年内归还的故事。

儿子(在滑稽短剧中也由杨扮演)解释说,他可以以1000美元的价格出售这款手机,然后等待苹果公司在年内发布新机型,那时老机型iPhone 13的价格可能降至600美元。那时再把iPhone 13买回来,他将获得400美元的利润。一年过去了,父亲要求归还手机。儿子归还了手机,并承认了他的计划。

“这么说你从我身上赚到了钱!”父亲回答道。“我刚刚向你展示了什么是做空股票。你借了一股股票,当归还时,如果你能以更低的价格买回来,你就能获利。否则,你就亏了。”

杨在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示,他知道做空股票是一个很难理解的概念。“所以我用了一个大多数人都能理解的简单类比。”

他针对金融教育的简单类比方法引起了330万TikTok粉丝的共鸣。虽然该应用程序没有提供该粉丝群的明确人口统计数据,但近一半的TikTok用户年龄在30岁以下。杨向《财富》杂志提供的油管(YouTube)分析截图显示,杨的油管短视频观看者中,超过75%的人年龄在34岁以下。

正如最近一项消费者事务调查发现的那样,他在社交媒体上的受欢迎程度在一定程度上解释了为什么他是Z世代最值得信赖的理财顾问。婴儿潮一代和X世代大多最信任沃伦·巴菲特。但就理财顾问受欢迎程度而言,这位伯克希尔哈撒韦公司(Berkshire Hathaway)的首席执行官在Z世代中跌至第四位。

考虑到Z世代对TikTok的喜爱,这一发现是有道理的,但仍然有点令人惊讶。现年91岁的巴菲特是世界上经验最丰富的投资者之一,以节俭和1030亿美元的净资产而闻名。而杨今年才34岁,拥有金融学位,曾在美林证券公司(Merrill Lynch)担任了一年的财务顾问,并在帕洛阿尔托一家投资银行实习了五个月。然后,他转向运营一款移动应用程序,并与他人联合创办了一家定制艺术公司,最终于2019年成为油管博主。

巴菲特的营业方式是发表主题演讲,而杨的营业方式是在他的湾区公寓里拍摄和编辑滑稽短剧。关于杨是如何成功吸引Z世代的注意力的,《财富》杂志对杨进行了采访,他将其归功于他善于分解和解释晦涩难懂的金融话题。

成为个人理财网红的秘诀

杨在意识到自己已成为朋友们寻求理财建议的首选人后,开始在油管上发布视频,想着他的形象可以转变一下,但从来没有预料到这能引起多大反响。

他很快下载了崭露头角的TikTok,搜索了个人理财话题标签,但几乎没有找到任何视频。他回忆道:“我把这当作一个信号。我想,‘也许我能成为理财话题视频第一人。’”

从2019年9月到2020年9月,杨每天都拍一段视频。虽然他在YouTube和Instagram上保持着活跃度,但近两年,他的全部注意力都集中在TikTok账号上了。

杨一贯的做法是,简化复杂的金融话题,在快速、简单的视频中不带丝毫优越感。

他说,由于观众的注意力持续时间太短,他尽量不浪费观众的时间,并补充说他希望每个人都能理解通常来说令人困惑的金融和经济学基础知识。

他说:“对很多人来说,整个行业就像是一个黑盒子。他们甚至不想参与其中,因为它让人感到很困惑。行话太多,电视上关于金融的话题解释性不强,可看性也不强。人们不想看图表。”

他说,现在缺少的是可及性,以及不会吓跑人们的主题切入口。“创作者越能解除观众的武装——帮助他们意识到,一旦他们掌握了关键概念,金融并不是那么难——他们就越能给予观众更多的能量。”

弥合金融知识鸿沟

杨的“北极星目标”正在影响人们并鼓励他们掌控自己的财务。他理解人们对投资的犹豫;杨本人直到25岁才进行了第一笔投资。

“我很害怕!”他回忆说。“我甚至都不相信自己。我有一些非常聪明的朋友,他们都在30岁附近,在科技行业工作,甚至他们都在犹豫是否投资,因为他们担心自己不够了解。这是一个需要弥合的知识鸿沟。”

但杨自己承认,要完成这一使命还有很长的路要走。他说,由于人们对理财顾问和个人理财大师缺乏信任,以及信贷公司和利率的掠夺性,这在很大程度上使情况变得复杂。

在杨看来,并非所有个人理财网红都把观众的最大利益放在心上。杨对那些试图推销交易课程的人持怀疑态度,他说他对那些让观众可以放心地为自己投资的个人理财教育更感兴趣。

他说:“如果我想赚快钱,我会出售一门承诺在30天内赚到一定金额的课程——但我不相信那种课程。”他补充说,如果他想扩大自己的受众,他愿意解释“各种各样的事情”。

他回忆说,有一次他在一家餐馆吃午饭,两个20多岁的年轻人走近他,告诉他,是他的视频鼓励他们开始在罗斯个人退休账户(Roth IRA)里存钱并进行投资。

“事实上,他们看了我的一些视频,然后受到启发为自己做点什么——这是最终目标。”他说。“我是千禧一代;我从没接触过这种东西。我直到23岁才知道抵押贷款是什么。但Z世代拥有这一切。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

在一段有1450万点击量的TikTok视频中,汉弗莱·杨讲了一位父亲给儿子一部iPhone 13,条件是一年内归还的故事。

儿子(在滑稽短剧中也由杨扮演)解释说,他可以以1000美元的价格出售这款手机,然后等待苹果公司在年内发布新机型,那时老机型iPhone 13的价格可能降至600美元。那时再把iPhone 13买回来,他将获得400美元的利润。一年过去了,父亲要求归还手机。儿子归还了手机,并承认了他的计划。

“这么说你从我身上赚到了钱!”父亲回答道。“我刚刚向你展示了什么是做空股票。你借了一股股票,当归还时,如果你能以更低的价格买回来,你就能获利。否则,你就亏了。”

杨在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示,他知道做空股票是一个很难理解的概念。“所以我用了一个大多数人都能理解的简单类比。”

他针对金融教育的简单类比方法引起了330万TikTok粉丝的共鸣。虽然该应用程序没有提供该粉丝群的明确人口统计数据,但近一半的TikTok用户年龄在30岁以下。杨向《财富》杂志提供的油管(YouTube)分析截图显示,杨的油管短视频观看者中,超过75%的人年龄在34岁以下。

正如最近一项消费者事务调查发现的那样,他在社交媒体上的受欢迎程度在一定程度上解释了为什么他是Z世代最值得信赖的理财顾问。婴儿潮一代和X世代大多最信任沃伦·巴菲特。但就理财顾问受欢迎程度而言,这位伯克希尔哈撒韦公司(Berkshire Hathaway)的首席执行官在Z世代中跌至第四位。

考虑到Z世代对TikTok的喜爱,这一发现是有道理的,但仍然有点令人惊讶。现年91岁的巴菲特是世界上经验最丰富的投资者之一,以节俭和1030亿美元的净资产而闻名。而杨今年才34岁,拥有金融学位,曾在美林证券公司(Merrill Lynch)担任了一年的财务顾问,并在帕洛阿尔托一家投资银行实习了五个月。然后,他转向运营一款移动应用程序,并与他人联合创办了一家定制艺术公司,最终于2019年成为油管博主。

巴菲特的营业方式是发表主题演讲,而杨的营业方式是在他的湾区公寓里拍摄和编辑滑稽短剧。关于杨是如何成功吸引Z世代的注意力的,《财富》杂志对杨进行了采访,他将其归功于他善于分解和解释晦涩难懂的金融话题。

成为个人理财网红的秘诀

杨在意识到自己已成为朋友们寻求理财建议的首选人后,开始在油管上发布视频,想着他的形象可以转变一下,但从来没有预料到这能引起多大反响。

他很快下载了崭露头角的TikTok,搜索了个人理财话题标签,但几乎没有找到任何视频。他回忆道:“我把这当作一个信号。我想,‘也许我能成为理财话题视频第一人。’”

从2019年9月到2020年9月,杨每天都拍一段视频。虽然他在YouTube和Instagram上保持着活跃度,但近两年,他的全部注意力都集中在TikTok账号上了。

杨一贯的做法是,简化复杂的金融话题,在快速、简单的视频中不带丝毫优越感。

他说,由于观众的注意力持续时间太短,他尽量不浪费观众的时间,并补充说他希望每个人都能理解通常来说令人困惑的金融和经济学基础知识。

他说:“对很多人来说,整个行业就像是一个黑盒子。他们甚至不想参与其中,因为它让人感到很困惑。行话太多,电视上关于金融的话题解释性不强,可看性也不强。人们不想看图表。”

他说,现在缺少的是可及性,以及不会吓跑人们的主题切入口。“创作者越能解除观众的武装——帮助他们意识到,一旦他们掌握了关键概念,金融并不是那么难——他们就越能给予观众更多的能量。”

弥合金融知识鸿沟

杨的“北极星目标”正在影响人们并鼓励他们掌控自己的财务。他理解人们对投资的犹豫;杨本人直到25岁才进行了第一笔投资。

“我很害怕!”他回忆说。“我甚至都不相信自己。我有一些非常聪明的朋友,他们都在30岁附近,在科技行业工作,甚至他们都在犹豫是否投资,因为他们担心自己不够了解。这是一个需要弥合的知识鸿沟。”

但杨自己承认,要完成这一使命还有很长的路要走。他说,由于人们对理财顾问和个人理财大师缺乏信任,以及信贷公司和利率的掠夺性,这在很大程度上使情况变得复杂。

在杨看来,并非所有个人理财网红都把观众的最大利益放在心上。杨对那些试图推销交易课程的人持怀疑态度,他说他对那些让观众可以放心地为自己投资的个人理财教育更感兴趣。

他说:“如果我想赚快钱,我会出售一门承诺在30天内赚到一定金额的课程——但我不相信那种课程。”他补充说,如果他想扩大自己的受众,他愿意解释“各种各样的事情”。

他回忆说,有一次他在一家餐馆吃午饭,两个20多岁的年轻人走近他,告诉他,是他的视频鼓励他们开始在罗斯个人退休账户(Roth IRA)里存钱并进行投资。

“事实上,他们看了我的一些视频,然后受到启发为自己做点什么——这是最终目标。”他说。“我是千禧一代;我从没接触过这种东西。我直到23岁才知道抵押贷款是什么。但Z世代拥有这一切。”(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-王芳

In a TikTok video with 14.5 million views, Humphrey Yang depicts a father giving a son an iPhone 13 under the condition that it’s returned in one year.

The son (also played by Yang in the skit) reasons he could sell the phone for $1,000 and wait for Apple to release a new model within the year, which would likely knock the iPhone 13’s price down to $600. Buying it back then would reap him a $400 profit. A year passes, and the father asks for the phone back. The son returns it, and admits to his plan.

“So you made a profit on me!” the father responds. “I just showed you what shorting a stock is. You borrow a share of a stock, and when it comes to returning it, if you can buy it back for less, you make a profit. If not, you’ll take a loss.”

Yang knows shorting a stock can be a hard concept to grasp, he tells Fortune in an interview. “So I used a simple analogy most people can relate to.”

His simple-analogy approach to financial education has resonated with 3.3 million TikTok followers. While the app doesn’t provide clear demographics of this fanbase, nearly half of TikTok’s users are younger than 30. And a screenshot of YouTube analytics Yang provided to Fortune shows that over 75% of viewers of Yang’s short-form YouTube videos are younger than 34.

His social media popularity partly explains why he’s the most trusted source of financial advice among Gen Z, as a recent Consumer Affairs survey found. Boomers and Gen X, by a wide margin, trust Warren Buffett the most. But the Berkshire Hathaway CEO fell to fourth place for Gen Z.

Considering Gen Z’s affinity for TikTok, the finding makes sense, but is still a little surprising. Buffett, 91, is one of the world’s most seasoned investors, known for his frugal ways and $103 billion net worth. Yang, on the other hand, is a 34-year-old with a finance degree who spent a year as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch and five months interning at a Palo Alto investment bank. Then he pivoted to running operations for a mobile app and co-founded a custom art company before finally landing on YouTube in 2019.

Where Buffett trades in keynotes, Yang trades in skits filmed and edited in his Bay Area apartment. Fortune spoke with Yang about how he’s managed to snag Gen Z’s attention, which he attributes to his ability of breaking down and demystifying dense financial topics.

The secret sauce of becoming a personal finance influencer

Yang first began posting videos on YouTube after realizing he’d become his friends’ go-to guy for financial advice, figuring his persona could translate, but never predicting just how much it would resonate.

He soon downloaded the up-and-coming TikTok, searched the personal finance hashtags, and found almost no videos. “I took that as a sign,” he recalls. “I thought, ‘maybe I can be the first person to do this.’”

Between September 2019 and September 2020, Yang made a video every single day. While he maintains a presence on YouTube and Instagram, his TikTok account has had his full-time attention for nearly two years.

Yang has remained consistent in his approach, simplifying complex financial topics without an iota of superiority in quick, simple videos.

He says he tries not to waste the viewer’s time since attention spans are so short, adding that he wants everyone to be able to understand the often befuddling basics of finance and economics.

“The whole industry seems like a black box for many people,” he says. “They don’t even want to get into it because it can feel so confusing. There’s so much jargon, and the things on TV aren’t necessarily explanatory or easy to watch. People don’t want to look at charts and graphs.”

What’s missing, he says, is accessibility and an on-ramp to the subject matter that doesn’t scare people away. “The more that a creator can kind of disarm the viewer—help them realize finance isn’t really that hard once they get the key concepts down—the more power they can give.”

Bridging the financial knowledge gap

Yang’s “north star goal” is impacting people and encouraging them to take control of their own finances. He understands people’s hesitation towards investing; Yang himself didn’t make his first investment until he was 25.

“I was scared!” he recalls. “I didn’t even trust myself yet. I have very smart friends in their 30s, working in tech, and even they’re hesitant to invest because they worry they don’t know enough. That’s a knowledge gap that needs to be bridged.”

But Yang, by his own admission, has a long way to go in accomplishing that mission. He says it’s largely complicated by the lack of trust people have in financial advisors and personal finance gurus, and how predatory credit companies and interest rates can be.

In Yang’s eyes, not all personal finance influencers have the viewer’s best interest at heart. Skeptical of those who try to sell trading courses, Yang says he’s more interested in educating on personal finance to the point where viewers feel comfortable investing for themselves.

“If I wanted fast cash, I’d sell a course promising a certain amount of money in 30 days—but I just don’t believe in that stuff,” he says, adding that he’d be open to explaining “all kinds of things” if he wanted to expand his audience.

He recalls a time he was having lunch at a restaurant when two 20-somethings approached him and told him his videos had encouraged them to start contributing to a Roth IRA and make investments.

“The fact that they watched something of mine, then were inspired to do something for themselves—that’s the ultimate goal,” he says. “I’m a millennial; I never had access to this kind of thing. I didn’t know what a mortgage was until I was 23. But Gen Z has all of this.”

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