Marketplace Money: Young investors and the stock market

by Mark on August 30, 2010

Are young investors taking the wrong message from the 2008 market meltdown?

Financial experts usually advise young retirement investors to be aggressive, socking away as much money in stocks as possible. But recent investor data suggests that young investors have become very risk averse–no surprise, given lousy market performance over the past decade.

I talked about this trend on Marketplace Money with Tess Vigeland last weekend.

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