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Men and women tend to have different estimations of their investing ability, with men considering themselves fairly adept but women calling themselves beginners. As a result, the financial services world has tended to treat male clients more deferentially. But a new survey of male and female investors finds that, while women don’t give themselves credit for skills, their performance equals that of men.
Hear Financial Planning Editor Marion Asnes talk more about women investors and why it’s important not to underestimate women investors, who have become substantially more sophisticated over the years, on Public Radio’s “Marketplace.”
You can hear the story here: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/11/11/am-men-v-women/.
