Uncertain Futures: 7 Myths about Millennials and Investing
CFA Society New York (8th Fl) 1540 Broadway, 8th Fl, New York, NY, United StatesMillennials are expected to inherit more than $40 trillion over the coming decades. While conventional wisdom abounds about millennial investors, CFA Institute and the FINRA Foundation have partnered on a new study to discover what millennials are actually thinking and doing, and what they are learning from other generations about investing. Are millennial investors super savers and investors compared to other generations? What are their attitudes about Wall Street or investment advisers? What is real and what is fiction? On 4 October, speakers and panelists will discuss implications for the investment industry and financial educators of millennials’ investment preferences, the catalysts and barriers they face in saving and investing, and their attitudes about investment advice.