When she had kids, she wanted to teach them that “it’s not scary and intimidating.”There’s some evidence more families are realizing just that. On Public.com, an investment platform that allows users to buy fractional shares, posts on family topics—including how to teach kids about stocks—roughly doubled in the past month. For Chris Kloch, who lives near Buffalo, New York, it’s about giving his kids a head start he didn’t have. Every Sunday, he sits down with his two youngest, Alexander and Juliette, to buy US$5 slices of companies they know. Recently, the boy split US$5 between a Starbucks cake pop and a tiny bit of the company’s stock.

Source: The Edge Markets August 18, 2021 16:10 UTC