FOMO, social media drive how millennials invest


Millennials’ use of social media is helping to drive their investment decisions, according to Fabrizio Campelli, Deutsche Bank AG’s global head of wealth management.

They have a “fear of missing out” as they’re more “networked and exposed” through social media to their peers’ activity than previous generations, Campelli said Wednesday during a discussion about millennial wealth at the Bloomberg Invest Summit in London.

Born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, millennials’ growing focus on investments that align with their personal values and lifestyles is forcing wealth managers to reassess their services. They’re set to inherit as much as $30 trillion, according to research firm CB Insights, and their adulthoods align with the post-2000 inception of global social media networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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