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 researcher at the CFA Institute Research and Policy Centre. The disconnect between their willingness to take risks and their actual investment choices illustrated what the institute called an “aspiration-implementation...
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September 11, 2026 at 10:05 AM
China’s young investors embrace risk. Why are their portfolios so safe?
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