Many women think men are the better investors; they´re not
(WorldNews Business)

Many men and women think men are the better investors. They’re wrong. After checking how 8 million of its customers did during 2016, Fidelity Investments found that women earned 6.4 per cent on their portfolios. Its male customers made slightly less: 6 per cent. The difference in performance is small, and it’s always dangerous to make big generalizations out of small slices of data. But it slots in with other research that suggests women tend to take a longer-term view of investing. They are more likely to buy and hold their investments, and they take fewer risks. Perhaps more importantly, the numbers put into sharp relief how women may be too pessimistic about their own...