Overall, asset prices climbed a whopping 6.3 percent in 2020. That comes from the FvS asset price index 2020. Above all, wealthy households who owned real estate and businesses before the pandemic benefited from this. The richest ten percent increased their prosperity by 7.2 percent last year, in the lower middle class the increase was only 1.8 percent. Either way: Anyone with a fortune would do well to prepare for all eventualities. In addition to protecting against inflation, real assets offer a great advantage: real diversification. Some of these objects enrich not only materially, but also spiritually and emotionally. That can be said of art, but also of classically beautiful automobiles or fine wines. WELT explains how you can get started right now.