Akane Otani

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Stocks Are at Record Highs. Here's What New Investors Need to Know. · 26 Apr 2021 podcast

or brokerage accounts and how they differ from one another.

And then finally, of course, the financial advisor has always been around.

And I think that's another place that investors will often turn to when they're not sure exactly what their retirement goals should be and how their investing projectives and goals can sort of fit into that.

So I think there's definitely a variety of online and offline resources, free and paid, that investors have nowadays.

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Risky Betting Defined Investors' First Quarter. Will It Continue? · 1 Apr 2021 podcast

I think one thing that really surprised a lot of people is just how risk tolerant these investors have been.

I mean, in the first quarter, we saw individuals in particular driving up huge amounts of trading activity in some of the most heavily shorted stocks in the world.

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Absolutely.

I mean, I think investors had started this year with pretty muted expectations because there was a sense that because of the pandemic, a lot of the recovery in the economy would take quite some time.

And, you know, at the best case scenario, I think they were expecting a rather muted rollout, especially when it comes to vaccinations in the U.S.

But we actually ended up seeing the pace of vaccinations, I think, pleasantly surprised to the upside and

And that, in combination with what the Federal Reserve has been doing and the amount of fiscal stimulus that we were getting from the federal government, really helped markets stage this powerful sort of shift in the second half of the first quarter, where we saw bond yields really rising to about the 1.7% level for the 10-year period.

compared with around 0.9% at the start of the year.

And tech stocks really sort of fall out of favor.

And in bank stocks and energy stocks, takeover market leadership.

And then also just this huge big boom in individual investing as well.

I think part of it has to do with this big shift that we've been seeing among retail brokerages over the last couple of years.

I mean, we've seen a lot of these brokerages, of course, get rid of commissions on online trades.

That was a big step.

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