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China's young investors show risk tolerance but choose safe assets

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Young investors in China exhibit a high tolerance for risk, yet their investment portfolios lean towards conservative assets. This discrepancy, termed an "aspiration-implementation gap" by the CFA Institute Research and Policy Centre, stems from factors like China's stock market underperformance, a property downturn, and deflationary pressures. Despite a desire for early retirement and a willingness to take risks, these investors predominantly favor wealth-management products and money-market funds over riskier options like cryptocurrencies or mutual funds, which are more common among their global counterparts. AI

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Yulu Ao ·

    China’s young investors embrace risk. Why are their portfolios so safe?

    Young Chinese investors may be just as willing to take risks as their global peers, but their portfolios remain more conservative against a backdrop of years of relative underperformance in China’s stock market, a prolonged property downturn and deflation, according to a senior r…

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