Millennial women are investing earlier, and with greater confidence, than their elders
Millennial women start to invest at 27 years of age, on average, jumping into the markets nearly a decade earlier than the Baby Boomers before them.
They are also investing in a broader and more complex range of asset classes, have greater confidence in their investment strategies and are more likely to say they find investing fun and empowering than older generations, according to a new generational analysis out this week from Charles Schwab’s 2025 Women Investors Survey.
The survey of 1,200 American women investors who are primary or joint financial decisionmakers in their households found that the average age Gen Xers started investing was 31 and Boomers at 36. Almost one-third (31%) of Millennial women investors say they…
