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Teaching women investors to embrace risk

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Women's longer life expectancies and the likelihood that most will spend their final years on their own indicate the need to take more risk with their retirement portfolios. Unfortunately, most female investors do the opposite.

By nature, women tend to be caring and careful. But the same tendencies that prompt them to nurture and protect their families may result in some women sabotaging their own retirement preparedness.

Now the impact of Covid may further undermine women’s retirement readiness. More women left the w

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