In the Margins

Millennials love ETFs

September 7, 2017

By MarketWatch

According to an annual study by Charles Schwab, more than half of millennial investors say exchange-traded funds are their investment of choice. Comparatively, 42% of all investors said ETFs were their instrument of choice, while 44% of Generation X investors did and 30% of boomer investors did. Only 23% of seniors favored ETFs over other alternatives like mutual funds and individual securities. Read the original story from MarketWatch.

 

 

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