Gen Y

Wealth Gets a Facelift -- How to Attract and Engage New Young Wealthy Clients

April Rudin | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Gen X, Gen Y, Gen-Y Wealth, Generation Gap Wealthy Clients, Attracting New Clients, Attracting Clients, Gen-Y Rich, Business News
April Rudin

While I think it's true that "the rich are getting richer," it's important to note a newer, more quantifiable trend: the rich are getting younger.

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The Prepaid Debit Card Comes of Age

Curtis Arnold | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Credit Cards, Prepaid Debit Cards, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Banks, Economy, Usaa, U.S. Bank, ING Direct, Gen Y, Credit Report, Money News
Curtis Arnold

Debit cards have also sprouted in the wallets of young Americans. Unable to get credit cards until age 21, more Generation Y consumers rely on debit cards for routine money management.

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Things The Facebook Generation Will Not Buy

24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale and Michael B. Sauter | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Desktop Computers, Newspapers, Net Generation, Gen Y, Beer, Email, Cars, Popularity, Products, Facebook Generation, Landline Phones, Cigarettes, Consumption Trends, Business News, Televisions, Dying Products, Extinct Products, Business News

24/7 Wall St.: Consumer tastes are changing at a greater rate than ever before. Not surprisingly, the purchasing habits of the youngest generation pre...

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Social Enterprise Means Reaching Our Highest Potential

Lisa Curtis | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Jobs, Meaningful Work, Jobs-for-Young-People, Millenials, Work, Social Entrepreneurship, Gen Y, Impact News
Lisa Curtis

Reimagining work amidst a global recession might seem crazy, but as Albert Einstein famously said, the true definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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Catherine New

Shut Out From Traditional Banks, More Americans Turn To Prepaid Cards: Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Prepaid Debit Cards, Prepaid Card Teenagers, Prepaid Debit Card, Checking Accounts, Gen Y, Prepaid Card, Prepaid Cards, Unabanked, Credit Cards, CARD Act, Javelin, Money News

Increasingly shut out of traditional bank accounts, more Americans are turning to prepaid debit cards often notorious for their high fees. Prepaid ...

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Why You Don't Own A Car

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Traffic, Gas Prices, Driving, New Car, Ridesharing, Gen X, Gen Y, Carpooling, Auto Insurance, Car Culture, Poll, Used Car, Automobile, Money News

The quintessential dream of waking up on your sixteenth birthday to find a new car adorned with a big red bow parked in the driveway is now a thing of...

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Why The 'Hipster' Generation-Y Africa Movement Must Evolve

Jonathan Kalan | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Kony 2012, Charity, Gen Y, Africa, Nonprofits, Marketing, Invisible Children, Media, Hipsters, Activism, Impact News
Jonathan Kalan

Life for the "pampered" generation may finally be getting tougher. We are becoming more critical, analytical, rational and judgmental. We are, *GASP!*, growing up and maturing. And so are our idealistic tendencies.

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What's the Deal With Generation 'Why Bother'? One 20-Something Speaks Out

LearnVest | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: 20-Somethings, Generation Y, Millenials, Gen Y, Women News
LearnVest

People have a lot of opinions about money. In our "Money Mic" series, we hand over the podium to someone with a strong opinion on a financial topic. ...

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Gen-X/Gen-Y Wealth Is Coming to Wall Street -- Financial Services Needs to "Catch the Wave"

April Rudin | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Social Media, Baby Boomers, Private Wealth Management, Gen X, Wealth, Wall Street, Social Networking, Brokerage Firms, Gen Y, Banks, Generation X, Banking Industry, Generation Y, Financial Advice, Brokers, Money News
April Rudin

The differentiators and qualities displayed by Gen-X and Gen-Y need to be well-understood and addressed to attract the the next wave of wealth.

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New Generation, Same Story?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: The Nation, Workplace, Millenials, Gen Y, Gender Pay Gap, Bryce Covert, u.s. Department of Education, Accenture, Opting-Out, Maternal Wall, Feminism, Equal Pay Day, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

When young women declare themselves optimistic about women in the workplace in the very same survey in which they point out gender-based inequities, you kind of have to worry.

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Never Too Old To Get An Allowance From Mom And Dad

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Multi-Generational Housing, Financial Help From Parents, Allowance, Financial Assistance, Rent, Gen Y, Boomerang Generation, Living at Home, Adult Allowance, Poll, Parents, Money News

Living at home, doing chores and getting a regular allowance. Not much has changed since middle school--except that this describes nearly 20 percent o...

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Collaboration Is the New Competition

Meighan Stone | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Social Startups Sxsw, SXSW 2012, Upstarts, Gen Y, Sxsw, Startups Sxsw, Impact News
Meighan Stone

From Invisible Children to charity: water to Pencils of Promise to Warby Parker to the Girl Effect, the "New Guard" in international development was out in full force at SXSW this year. And this New Guard has an approach that's definitively open source.

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Another Decade, Another New Way To Parent

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Science of Parenting, Gen X, Millenials, Parenting Philosophies, Gen Y, Parenting, Parenting Trends, Raising Kids, Parents News, Generations of Parents, Ucla, Center on Everyday Lives of Families, Spoiled Kids, Parentry, Modern Parenting, Raising Spoiled Kids, Baby Boomers, Celf, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

How quickly does American parenting change? Are today's parents different than they were 10 years ago?

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An Opinion on Kony 2012: Slactivism and Gullible Youth

TNGG | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Visibile Children, Kony 2012, Invisible Children, Social Action, Activism, Students, Generation Y, Gen Y, Slactivism, Video, College News
TNGG

There are other ways to get rid of Kony and end the exploitation of children in Africa that don't include violence or the American military. We shouldn't always fight violence with violence.

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Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?

Mickey Goodman | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Gen Y, Tim Elmore, Habitudes, Helicopter Parents, Parenting, Parents News
Mickey Goodman

When a college freshman received a C- on her first test, she literally had a meltdown in class. Sobbing, she texted her mother who called back, demanding to talk to the professor immediately (he, of course, declined).

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How Millennials Are Shaping the Future of Social Entrepreneurship and Technology

Melissa Richer | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Nonprofits, Social Media, Tech Startups, Nonprofit Startups, Generation Y, Gen Y Work, Social Entrepreneurship, Gen Y, Impact News
Melissa Richer

Right now, social entrepreneurship is a hot trend and there are funders, conferences, university departments and newspaper sections devoted to it.

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Gen Y Behavior Creates New Work Culture

Caroline Dowd-Higgins | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Career Development, Social Media, Unemployment, Gen Y, Millennials, Hiring, Careers, Work-Life Balance, Millennial Generation, Facebook, Work-Culture, Generation Gap, Business News
Caroline Dowd-Higgins

Communication gaps between the generations in the workplace is not a new phenomenon but now there are new data points to illustrate how Generation Y may be changing the professional work culture dramatically.

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Catherine New

Why Gen Y Still Invests In Stocks

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: 401(K), Target-Funds, Investing, Millenials, Equity, Money, Stock Market, Bonds, Retirement, Gen Y, Roth IRA, Penions, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Business News

People born in the 1980s are more into the stock market than one might think, according to one new study. While analysts have worried that the volatil...

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Gen Y Workers Want Flexible Hours, Not 9 To 5

TIME | DAN SCHAWBEL | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Euro RSCG Worldwide, Flexible Work Arrangements, Maryella Gockel, Gen Y, Millennials, Millennial Generation, Business and Professional Women?S Foundation, Flexible Work Schedules, Generation Y, Business News

The traditional eight-hour workday may soon be the exception rather than the rule. New evidence shows that we're reaching a tipping point in terms of ...

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Most Great Entrepreneurs Don't Drop Out of Harvard

Marty Zwilling | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Harvard, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Courses, Gen-Y, Degrees, Small Business, College Dropouts, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Small Business News
Marty Zwilling

The most successful entrepreneurs are those with multiple real-life experiences, who have personal exposure to markets where opportunities are being left on the table.

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Why Aren't we Hearing from Gen Y Women in the Workplace?

Erica Dhawan | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Radcliffe Institute, Nancy Cott, Baby Boomers, Tedx, TED Talks, Gen X, Tedxwomen, Gen Y, Erica Dhawan, Harvard, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Women in the Workplace, Sheryl Sandberg, Women News
Erica Dhawan

Women's forums, conferences and events -- both in the real world and online -- need to address and speak about the new issues that women of the next generation face.

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What You Need To Know About Gen Y Women & The Workplace

Deborah Frett | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Women, Gender Discrimination, Gen Y, Inter-Generational, Millennials, Successful Workplaces, Work-Life Balance, Age Discrimination, Women News
Deborah Frett

The key to recruiting, supporting and retaining Gen Y workers requires unlearning what we "know" about this cohort and relearning the importance of flexibility, equality and inclusiveness.

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The Paradox Of Spending

Mary Quigley | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Living at Home, Boomerang Kids, Gen Y, Millennials, Adult Children, Parents News
Mary Quigley

What does it really cost to have a boomerang kid? Let's examine some of those necessities.

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Why Kids Of Divorce May Have An Edge In A Recession

Vicki Larson | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Gen X, Divorce, Gen Y, Careers, Jobs, Millennial Generation, Entrepreneurship, Recession, Divorce News
Vicki Larson

We all know the doom-and-gloom stories about the legacy of divorce. But can divorce offer something positive for kids?

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Looks Who's Leading Today's Entrepreneurial Resurgence

The Huffington Post | Rieva Lesonsky | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Investing, Small Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Gen Y, Small Business News and Trends, Gen-Y-Entrepreneurship, Startups, Entrepreneurs, HuffPost Small Business Board of Directors, Venture Capital, Startup Investing, Venture Capital Fund, Young Entrepreneur Council, Small Business News

When I started working at Entrepreneur magazine back in the 1970s, no one really knew what an entrepreneur was -- few could even spell or say the word...

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