{"id":17946,"date":"2022-03-09T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=17946"},"modified":"2022-03-09T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:13:43","slug":"women-are-outperforming-male-counterparts-with-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/homeownership\/women-are-outperforming-male-counterparts-with-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"How women are outperforming men with their investments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data from a Fidelity Investments survey<\/a> shows that women are investing at an unprecedented<\/strong> rate – and their portfolios, despite comprising less of the overall market than men\u2019s holdings, are proving to be more successful than their male counterparts\u2019 portfolios.<\/p>\n

The surge in women investing dovetails with an increase in ease of trading in the last few years, with many turning to \u201csocial investment\u201d services that remove traditional barriers to market usage. Public.com, an investment app commonly used by those who are new to trading, reports that women make up around 40% of its user base.<\/p>\n

Although the Fidelity study specifically addresses retail investment vehicles, we have been seeing a similar trend in residential real estate (particularly investment) in recent years.<\/p>\n

The survey also notes that the newest investors are millennial women. Here<\/a> are some examples of how they are spending (and saving) their money.<\/p>\n

On average, women who invest are seeing \u201cpositive returns\u201d<\/a> and \u201c[surpassing] men by 40 basis points, or 0.4%,\u201d says CNBC<\/em>. Their data is predicated on a decade-long analysis of 5.2 million accounts\u2019 annual performance.<\/p>\n

For all that, most of the women polled are still hesitant to begin investing. 70% of participants in the survey said they want some form of education regarding selecting individual stocks, and roughly 50%\u00a0 reported at least $20,000 in savings outside of emergency funds.<\/p>\n

“We’re still seeing money sitting on the sidelines,” says Lorna Kapusta, the head of women investors at Fidelity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kapusta expresses some concern that, rather than investing now, women are holding off until they feel more secure in their knowledge of the investment process, thus potentially missing out on growth opportunities.<\/p>\n

But 90% of those surveyed did say they planned to take steps toward investing sometime in \u201cthe next 12 months\u201d, indicating a near-unanimous confidence that the necessary education to reach that point is attainable.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it may be that hesitancy and willingness to wait for guidance rather than risking more volatile stocks that puts women investors ahead of their male counterparts. Last August, CNBC <\/em>reported that twice as many men as women invest in cryptocurrency<\/a> of some form, positing that democratization of trading should be a focus of that particular market.<\/p>\n

In truth, cryptocurrency has proven to be remarkably unstable; while men have been visibly eager about investing in things like Bitcoin and Ethereum, the majority of women\u2019s reluctance to invest without knowing more about the stocks they purchase may have given them an edge in cultivating more successful portfolios.<\/p>\n

Either way, Kapusta views the dearth of active women investors as a learning opportunity<\/strong>: “There’s often this self-doubt that comes into play… the opportunity for us is to continue to normalize the money conversation.” In the coming 12 months, it seems likely that \u201cthe money conversation\u201d will extend to involve guidance for a sharply growing number of women looking to invest in all types of vehicles (which obviously includes real estate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(FINANCE) New data shows that investments made by women are increasing at an unprecedented rate and are proving successful. Pay attention to the trend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337375,"featured_media":17947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[2220,1234],"class_list":["post-17946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homeownership","tag-investments","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/investors-women.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18480,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946\/revisions\/18480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}