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This One Money Mistake Most Millennials Are Making Will Lose Them Millions Over A Lifetime

The one big mistake: not taking advantage of the stock market by investing while we are young, when our  money has time to grow.

Via The Washington Post:

Fearing the market, millennials are putting their money in savings accounts. And the potential loss of future earnings is huge, like $3.3 million huge, according to new analysis by NerdWallet.
The online site says it looked at 40 years of market returns and interest rates. Using that data, they factored in how much a 25-year-old earning $40,456 saving 15 percent of this income could amass, assuming the market does what it’s done.

Sixty-three percent of 18- to 34-year-olds surveyed are saving for retirement in a savings account, a strategy that could lose them millions over the course of the 40-year period. Millennials fear the volatility of the stock market, but research shows that even if someone invested only over the 10-year period, the numbers still come out in favor of the stock market by a wide margin.

(BroBible.com)