In 2020, Jonathan Atwin and his partner jumped on the personal finance wagon, teaching themselves all about money and how to manage it better. “At the time, we were carrying some debt, so we wanted to try to tackle that,” said Atwin.
A growing group of young Canadians are relying on self teaching when it comes to personal finance, in the absence of financial literacy being taught in their schools and households and with the rise in personal finance content being shared online.