UPDATE: Asians, men more confident in financial markets than Pacific Islanders, women and poor people

UPDATE: Asians, men more confident in financial markets than Pacific Islanders, women and poor people
Jenny Ruth
(Updates with comment from FMA chief executive Rob Everett from 11th par.) By Jenny Ruth July 24 (BusinessDesk) - Asians are far more confident in New Zealand’s financial markets than Pacific Islanders and Maori while the confidence levels of most ethnicities eased a little in the Financial Markets Authority’s latest annual survey. Men are also more confident in financial markets than women and the higher a respondent’s income, the more likely they were to express confidence. The survey, the seventh by the FMA and the second conduct...

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