Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems

The 2024 Global Retail Investor Outlook, developed by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group and Robinhood Markets, explores the latest trends shaping retail investor behaviour. Based on a survey of 13,000 investors across 13 countries, it highlights key structural shifts, including expanded access to varied financial products, AI-driven platforms and demographic changes fuelling new market participation. The report spotlights the new wave of retail investors from traditionally underserved groups, including younger people, individuals from emerging markets and women.

Building on the Longevity Economy Principles, this white paper synthesizes five key trends shaping the future of the longevity economy: building resilient public retirement systems; transitioning from savings accumulation to decumulation; enhancing the role of employers in financial well-being; addressing the economics of caregiving and long-term care; and supporting financial pathways for economic growth.

This report aims to measure the costs of fragmentation and proposes frameworks to both protect the integrity of the global financial system – emphasizing the eight important principles that underpin the effective functioning of financial services globally – and design economic statecraft policies that protect national security and sovereignty without reducing global prosperity.

This white paper series, written in collaboration with Accenture, BCG, McKinsey and the University of Oxford, explores the transformative role of AI across industries. It provides insights through both broad analyses and in-depth explorations of industry-specific and regional deep dives.

With more than $350 billion of venture capital (VC) funding invested since 2015, fintech has become an industry with global net revenue exceeding $150 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow to $400 billion by 2028. Obtaining VC funding, however, remains a challenge for many fintech companies across regions.

This report advocates for collaboration among central banks, commercial banks, and financial market infrastructures to use wCBDC to address interbank payment and securities transaction challenges.