Women Investors Often Outperform Men, and Here's the Simple Reason Why

For the last several decades, a curious statistic has kept popping up in various studies all over the world. It seems women tend to generate a consistently higher rate of return than men when it comes to investing.

This was first reported by a research team from the University of California at Berkeley. The research found that, out of 35,000 brokerage accounts observed over six years, the female investors outperformed the males by over a percentage point.

As if a sample population of that size wasn't enough, several other research projects have reported similar findings, most recently Fidelity. It found that out of a group of 5 million Fidelity customers, women outperformed men by nearly half a percentage point over a 10-year period.

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Source Fool.com