Financial Tips You Can Learn from Millennials (Yes, Really)

Millennials: The generation that generates no shortage of news features and social media commentary.

But look beyond the tired, and often negative, stereotypes and you'll find a young generation beginning to create wealth by focusing on both traditional and nontraditional platforms and behaviors. Moreover, growing up alongside the rise of our digital world, millennials' approach to saving and building their portfolios is intrinsically linked with how technology makes these financial activities simpler and more efficient.

Working with multiple generations, oftentimes, within the same family, I've seen this evolution firsthand. The priorities and strategies of younger people today are markedly different from those of boomers and Gen Xers. And as millennials -- roughly defined as those born between 1981 to 1996 -- become the , I