women investors Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png women investors Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Closing the Gap https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/closing-gap/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:44:08 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=8326 When I speak to women’s groups about investing, I often share my own story of when I was starting out. After a few years of earnestly saving, I hired a financial adviser who put my savings to work in the market. He gave me confidence in the strategy, until I discovered that my money had […]

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]]> Meir Statman on What Investors Really Want https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/meir-statman-on-what-investors-really-want/ Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:50:37 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4194 Meir Statman, a member of Wealthfront’s investment advisory board, is a leader in the field of behavioral finance. He has researched and written much about investor behavior and its reflection in capital markets. We asked him to talk to us about what investors really want, how they can make smarter financial decisions, and what brought […]

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]]> Move Over Man Bacon, Let The Women Investors Sizzle https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/couples-finance/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:24:28 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1832 As we’ve written before, research suggests that women tend to be better investors than men, because they trade less often and take fewer risks. But women are prone to one big mistake: They don’t participate enough in the market. If you tie up your money in cash instead of a diversified portfolio, your returns will […]

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]]> How Men And Women Trip Up (Differently) As Investors https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/investing-mistakes-men-women-library-congress/ Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:17:42 +0000 /blog/?p=1191 Last week, we wrote about the Library of Congress’s report on nine stupid mistakes investors make. Library researchers turned up academic research that shed light on investors’ misguided behavior, such as momentum investing and trading too often. The research also turned up evidence that men and women are prone to different kinds of mistakes. Men […]

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