But a growing percentage of African Americans invests in the market.
Different goals affect investment decisions.
Kevin and Angela Brown, of Erial, Gloucester Township, are setting aside retirement money in stock funds. She lost interest for a long while. Now she is married to a man who is interested in finance, and has watched her public-relations clients take their companies public. And the stock market has caught Brown's eye again. She and her husband, Kevin Brown, of Erial, Gloucester Township, are setting aside retirement money in stock funds.