New Investors Display Higher Risk Tolerance, Greater Confidence: Fidelity
You’ve got to risk it to get the biscuit.
New retail investors — those who have been in markets for five years at most — are looking at tariffs, geopolitical tensions and overvalued stocks and saying “Psh, whatever.” Nearly 20% of new investors want to grow their wealth even if it means greater potential for loss, and more than half see their portfolios performing better over the next year than the past 12 months, according to Fidelity’s inaugural State of the American Investor study. Meanwhile those who have been investing for more than 11 years have a less positive outlook and are most concerned with limiting losses.
Newcomers started building their portfolios in a bull market when retail investing became highly…
