Richard Partington
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181 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Aug
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But I'd I'd still say like there is a degree of skepticism and caution.
I and
I think young people definitely more interested perhaps than millennial or other generations, but people are still kind of worried about being burnt and there isn't that degree of financial literacy that makes people entirely comfortable with this complicated and sometimes befuddling uh market.
Mm.
I think they're a you know a significant part of the you know the growth driver of people investing in the market.
So there's some recent research that was showed about forty percent of UK individuals uh invest in financial markets, uh, and that almost half of that group uh are under the age of thirty five.
Right.
Again, there are, you know, reasons for that.
I mean, later in life we'll want to kind of be more financially stable and investing in the stock markets can
Can be a bit of a risky thing to do.
So you might want to kind of keep your savings in cash.
Whereas if you're younger, you have more time to sort of ride out the bumps and the waves in the financial markets and might be more willing to take a little bit of risk to see a greater degree of return.
The government are trying to encourage more people to invest because there has been a decline in an investing culture in the UK.
Right.
And earlier this year, the government
launched a campaign with a sort of fuzzy squirrel called savvy, um, trying to get people to put more money into the stock market.
Who knows how successful or well remembered that'll be in an age of
Yeah, exactly.
Age of cuddly creatures being used to advertise various things like the mare count.
Yeah, exactly.
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