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New Research Finds Most Investors Lack Advanced Investment Knowledge, Increasing Their Exposure to Investment Risk

WASHINGTON—To kick-off World Investor Week (October 5-11), the FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation) and Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM), released new research examining how the investment literacy of Americans, particularly risk-related knowledge, is tied to their decisions and financial outcomes.