Author
Ayesha Iskander
Date
13 April 2021
Senior Journalist at CNA Insider, Grace Yeoh, discusses at length how the world of financial planning has transformed since previous generations, making one’s relationship with money more complicated when they enter the workforce. In the past, the lack of financial literacy education in schools created a knowledge gap for young graduates. “Young adults don’t know what they don’t know,” reported Chew Tee-Ming, co-founder of Seedly.
Fortunately, a few financial literacy program have been launched within the last decade to help young adults, such as the Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Program for Young Adults, and a financial education curriculum piloted at polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) colleges.