There has been no shortage of remarkable events over the past couple of years, but one of them has to be the influx of new investors.
In fact 15% of all current retail investors just got started in 2020, according to a recent survey by brokerage Charles Schwab. The median age of those investing newbies is 35.
That is perhaps no surprise to popular investing apps like Robinhood, which has soared from 5 million accounts at the end of 2019 to over 22.5 million this year.