Lelde Smits is a Director of The Australian Shareholders’ Association, co-founder of The Capital Network, and has been ranked as one Australia's Top 100 Entrepreneurs. She has reported breaking news from thousands of listed companies and interviewed hundreds of executives and investors around the world. Her company recently organised MarketLit, Australia’s First Financial Influencers, Millennial and Gen Z Investment Conference. MarketLit brought together leading financial influencers, market experts and ASX-listed companies to discuss the key investment themes and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) issues that emerging investors care about. Here's the link to watch: https://youtu.be/qDt_lhDZYIk

More information in the blog post here https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/lelde

"Almost 45 million US households will transfer a total of 68 trillion US dollars in wealth in the next 25 years. And millennials are really going to be the primary beneficiary of these transfer. So by 2050, they're expected to replace the baby boomers as the generation with the greatest wealth and online share trading platform. NABtrade says in Australia, millennials will inherit around three and a half trillion dollars from baby boomers over the next 20 years. And then of course, when we look at millennials coming into investment, it's also important to understand, well, what is important to millennials and Morgan Stanley says that 86% of millennials are interested in sustainable investing and twice as likely as the overall population to invest in companies targeting ESG goals." – Lelde Smits

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