Women and investing: 6 questions answered

GIVEN all the changes in investing behaviour, we wanted to ask 6 questions and measure how women's behaviour was changing since the Covid-19 pandemic went global in March 2020. We surveyed more than 2,000 women aged 18 to 75 online between Nov 10 and 12, 2021 in 5 countries: 1,057 in the United States (US) and 250 each in the United Kingdom (UK), Singapore, Sweden and Denmark. We asked the following 6 questions on investing:

How many women were investing?

An amazing 64 per cent of US women aged 18 to 29 either invest already or plan to invest within the year. That's a higher percentage than any other age group, and even when we look at only those actually investing, more than 4 in 10 US women aged 18 to 44 are investing for their future; and more than a third of those over age 60 were investing prior to the pandemic.