What it means to be a young investor in 2021 Investment platforms are experiencing a boom in younger users - how do they manage their portfolios? While just ten years ago teenage traders may have been a rarity, cryptocurrency platforms and the various apps have made investing more accessible to people of all ages. Fellow investment service interactive investor said that younger investors outperformed older investors for the whole of 2020, but the roles have reversed in the first quarter of 2021. “Yet our youngest adult customers are still outperforming all other generations over the past year, and the past fifteen months too,” commented chief executive Richard Wilson.