Real Money: Straight-up Answers with Berkshire Money Management DALTON — How can you tell when someone is going to have a future in the money business? Probably if he’s buying stocks in his teens and earning an adviser’s license while a junior in college. Nathan Tomkiewicz of Adams is a financial adviser with Berkshire Money Management, where he began as an intern at 19, working his way up while going to school; like his co-worker Lauren Russo, Tomkiewicz graduated from college a semester early to jump feet first into the business world. The Berkshire Community College and Massachusetts College of Liberal…
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Gen Z takes on Wall Street
The brokerage firm Robinhood has been a pioneer, creating some of the biggest changes to the Financial Industry since Charles Schwab enabled the everyday investor to gain access to the stock market through low cost commissions in 1974. Robinhood makes it feasible for someone to start buying stocks with $10’s of dollars instead of $10’s of thousands of dollars. Zero commission trading, Robinhood was the first, and because of this, millions of millennial and Gen Z investors opened an account and started to buy stocks. This is great, Wall Street came to Main Street. Financial pundits have long ridiculed Robinhood—and…