Sophie Robson considers the main findings from a CISI/MRM-organised event on young people's financial resilience - and the implications for advisers looking to serve the younger generation
As a group that has spent much of its formative years in the shadow of austerity, the younger generation has been shaped and influenced by the fallout from the great financial crisis. Many face pressures their parents' generation largely avoided - and indeed still face the consequences of the economic slowdown today, with uncertain job prospects, low wages and difficulties getting on the housing ladder. An event, organised this week by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and financial services consultancy MRM, took an in-depth look at young people and financial res...
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