Women and the Stock Market Economy: an investigation shows the profile of women investors

Although in our imagination the sharks of finance are gentlemen, Wall street It is not a world exclusively for men. This is demonstrated by the latest interesting research carried out by the Center of Talent Innovation, a non-commercial association in New York.

As reported by the report, globally 27% of wealth is managed by womenWe are talking about a figure that is around 15 thousand billion euros (20 trillion dollars). a higher sum of the PIL of the entire European Union. In the United States, the percentage rises to 39% (corresponding to 11.5 trillion dollars).

But how do these women investors? Can your economic management profile be superimposed on those of the men who work in the sector? As the new research reports, in many respects women and men behave in the same way in the bag. However, there are notable differences when choosing the percentage of risk for investments, women being from the United States. States more prone to a more stable portfolio of securities and less predisposed to risk (+ 29% when compared to men's portfolios). A situation that however does not occur in other parts of the world: in China and Hong Kong the risk profile adopted by men and women is the same. By contrast, in India the roles are reversed: it is precisely women who bet the most on stock market risk. In India, in fact, 81% of men prefer low-risk investments, against 52% of women.

What on the contrary unites the majority of investors around the world is the object of the investments, since globally 88% of women's investments are directed to projects that support the state Social. 8% is directed to investments that consider gender parity, and the figure should rise to the brevity up to 35% according to the development plans presented by the women involved in the report. Other sectors of investment in growth are those that refer to the environment (from the current 21% to 35%) and health (the current 9% should soon rise to 28%).

Another fact that significantly differentiates the profile of investors from the profile of men refers to the habit of referring to consultants or other professionals who can advise on investments, since the majority of women around the world (53%) prefer to act without intermediaries. In the United States, up to 75% of women under the age of 40 who act in the stock market independently. A worrying percentage, which in some countries is even higher: in Great Britain it is 73%, in Singapore it is 80%, in Hong Kong it is 84%. The most common motivation raised by women in this regard is that they believe that their real demands are not valued or understood by professionals in the sector. A fact that could be worrying, especially in relation to the supply of banks and investment institutes, which apparently do not take into due consideration the huge market shares managed by the women.