Abraham: Retail Investors Rotated from Cash Yield to Equities During Dip
Leif Abraham · When the Stock Market Becomes a MEME | Leif Abraham on TBPN April 8th · Apr 10, 2025 · at 9:20
Leif Abraham, co-founder and co-CEO of Public.com, explains how retail investors shifted funds between cash yield accounts and equities around recent market volatility.
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“So what we've seen in the last few trading days essentially is that people cycle out of the yield accounts and into stocks and ETFs because they essentially had this cash lying around and we're like, okay, you know, I think totally what we've been hearing a lot is that like, Hey, after Trump was elected and the market started ripping and there were, you know, all time highs and a bunch of things going on all the time that there was also a bunch of, you know, individual investors who were essentially feeling like, oh, I might just buy in the top right now. And so they put it into these yield accounts, but then also, The minute you saw things drop the way they've done now, they've basically cycled it out of the yield accounts into stocks and ETFs specifically.”
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