Women and men take similar risks in their portfolios, a Vanguard study noted, but women take advice from professionals in building their portfolios and those accepting professional assistance performed better, the study showed. Nonetheless, women still have investment portfolios nearly half the size of men primarily due to wage gap issues. Vanguard: Men and women have similar risk tolerances, each hold near 3/4 of their portfolio in equities The Vanguard study of 720,000 employees covering 380 retirement plans revealed that women and men take similar levels of portfolio risk, a factor attributed to the growing use of target-date funds as defaults….
Vanguard: Women Take As Much Investing Risk As Men, But…
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.