Sixty-one percent of U.S. adults say they have money in the stock market, either as an individual stock, a mutual fund, or a self-directed 401(k) or IRA plan. It’s the highest level since 2008, writes Michelle Singletary in Advice.
decades helped me send my kids to college debt-free, buy cars with cash and, most recently, pay off my mortgage 11 years early.
Since 1998, Gallup has asked Americans about their stock ownership as part of its annual Economy and Personal Finance survey. The Great Recession scared a lot of folks out of the market, depressinglow as 52 percent in 2013 and 2016, according to Gallup’s most recent poll, taken in April.Those who pulled back during that time or never jumped in missed the recovery that peaked
Sixty-one percent of U.S. adults say they have money in the stock market, either as an individual stock, a mutual fund, or a self-directed 401 or IRA“While it’s hard to generalize about what investors are doing as a group, I think a huge factor is that performance has been so strong,” said Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar, a financial services firm.Benz pointed out that the U.S.
“When you look at 401 participant behavior, you tend to see a very pleasing pattern of investors buying, and buying some more, and just hanging on,” Benz said. “They’re not paying close attention to what’s going on with their accounts on a day-to-day basis, and that redounds to the benefit of their long-run returns and financial well-being.”
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