Children's Investment Behavior – Parents, Beware

Children’s Investment Behavior – Parents, Beware by Anne Maggisano, Burgundy Blog Parents, Beware: Your Children Will Invest Like You Do.” This headline caught my attention in The Wall Street Journal last week.  In all my studies, I have never come across any research that demonstrated a link between the investing behaviors of parents and children, until now. The author of the article highlights a July 2015 paper, “On the Origins of Risk-Taking.” Here, the researchers take as their starting point the observation that parents who hold equities (“riskier” financial portfolios) are more likely to have children who also hold equities….