The mortarboards have been flung, tassels are hanging from rearview mirrors and a new group of college graduates are staying up until 3 a.m. submitting their resumes to every job opening they can find on the worldwide web. It isn’t just the angst of entering the workforce and desperately seeking employment that keeps young millennials up late at night. The idea of getting … [Read more...]

Millennials are still largely living with their parents, according to Pew Research Center study released Wednesday, July 29, 2015. (AP Photo) Pilar Belendez-DeSha was trying to figure out her next move. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, she was getting her geography degree at the University of Kentucky, but she did not have a plan. “All the jobs I was looking at paid … [Read more...]

By 2017, millennials will have more buying power than any other generation. But so far, they're not spending like their parents did. Millennials are often maligned for their lack of financial literacy, but there is one money skill the younger generation has in spades: saving. After growing up during the Great Recession, millennials want to keep every cent they can. (If you … [Read more...]

This story appears in the August 18, 2014 issue of Forbes. By Janet Novack and Samantha Sharf Without any apparent irony, the woman who aspires to change financial services in the 21st century sits in a conference room in Manhattan she named for Warren Buffett, despite his famous disdain for technology, and ticks off apps that have reimagined how her generation … [Read more...]