Women and Investing: Dispelling Myths

11/03/17 • 24 min

Women in the U.S. control more than $11 trillion of investable assets. That’s no small constituency for financial advisers and asset managers. In today’s podcast, we’ll hear from Heather Lord, Capital Group’s head of strategy and innovation, about the growing clout of women investors, based on the findings from our “Wisdom of Experience” investor surveys. And we’ll try to dispel a few myths along the way.

Your host Matt Miller is the policy and communications advisor for Capital Group. An author and former Washington Post columnist, Matt was co-host of the public radio program Left, Right & Center.

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U.S.: Women Investors: A Powerful and Confident, Yet Often Misunderstood, Economic Force

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U.S.: Women Investors: A Powerful and Confident, Yet Often Misunderstood, Economic Force

Canada: https://www.capitalgroup.com/ca/pdf/en/public/Wisdom_of_Experience.pdf

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Efficient Markets Reconsidered

How financial markets work has long been the subject of debate between two academic camps: the efficient markets theorists and the behavioral economists. Into the breach stepped finance professor and author Andrew Lo, who joins Matt to discuss his efforts to bridge this ideological divide.

Instead of viewing financial markets as “a physical system like a mechanical clock,” says Lo, “we really need to look at it as an ecosystem with particular organic agents that are acting with each other.”

The implications of Lo’s work extend far beyond the ivory tower, to regular investors and society at large.

Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering.

Your host, Matt Miller, is the policy and communications advisor for Capital Group. An author and former Washington Post columnist, Matt was co-host of the public radio program Left, Right & Center.

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Here to make sense of the shifting landscape is investment analyst Anne-Marie Peterson, a 22-year industry observer of the U.S. retail scene. She discusses what today’s disruptive forces could mean for investors and even shares what’s on her shopping list this holiday season.

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