What Drives Gen Z’s ETF Choices?

Gen Z might finally be growing up. In terms of their investment behavior, that is. The cohort, born between 1997 and 2012, are moving from investments in short-term, riskier bets like meme stocks to more traditional investments such as ETFs, according to a recent report in The New York Times. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when stimulus checks and work-from-home lifestyles left young people with cash to spare, day trading took off. But as the world returned to normal, younger investors established themselv ...