Panel II: Gen-Z will inherit the Earth – eventually

Generation Zers, born after 1997, are a fascinating bundle of contradictions. Wealthy but suspicious of money; digitally wired but lonely; empathetic yet easily distracted. But they’re trailblazers too and they will force companies, banks and investment firms to create products and funds that heal the world they inherit.

If Generation Z doesn’t matter already, it’s about to. Defined by the Pew Research Centre, a US think tank, as anyone born between 1997 and 2010, Gen-Z, as the demographic is known, is large and collectively powerful.

It accounts for 35% of the world’s population, or three billion people, says San Francisco research firm Zebra IQ.

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