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Retail investing boom prompts warning about finfluencers

News Team, 24/08/2021

Retail investing has boomed during the pandemic, in part due to the rise of social media ‘finfluencers’.

More than one in ten (12 percent) said TikTok got them more interested in investing, rising to 21 percent among 18-34 year-olds.

According to a survey of 2,000 by Opinium for Hargreaves Lansdown in April 2021, 11 percent of people said they’d developed an interest through Facebook, rising to 15 percent of younger people.

Another 10 percent cited Instagram ...


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