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Fifty-three percent of Gen Z and millennial investors in a new quarterly survey from E-Trade Financial said their top concern during the coronavirus crisis was their investment portfolios, followed by 44% who cited their health and 43% who worried about their ability to afford day-to-day living expenses.
"To watch a nest egg's value reduce drastically in almost the blink of an eye is enough to shake up anyone," Mike Loewengart, E-Trade's managing director of investment strategy, said in a statement.
"Millennial and Gen Z investors have primarily experienced the 10-year bull run in their investing lifetime so it's understandable to see portfolio concerns bubble up, but it's important to remember that time is on their side."
E-Trade's latest quarterly survey was conducted during the first week in April among an online U.S. sample of 940 self-directed active investors who manage at least $10,000 in an online brokerage account. The millennial/Gen Z dataset comprised 112 investors between the ages of 18 and 30.
Fifty-four percent of younger investors surveyed reported that they checked their portfolio at least daily, compared with 29% of the total population. In fact, 58% of investors under 30 said they checked their portfolios more frequently since the coronavirus pandemic.
Three in five younger investors expressed confidence that they were making the right decisions for their portfolios, compared with 38% of the total population.
