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Ignoring Women Costs Finance Firms $700 Billion a Year

Posted on 11/18/19 at 9:58 pm
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 9:58 pm
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The male-dominated finance industry is missing out on more than $700 billion a year in revenue by failing to listen to or tailor products for women, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman.

“Women are arguably the single largest under-served group of customers in financial services,” Jessica Clempner, the report’s lead author, said in a statement Tuesday. “Firms are leaving money on the table by not listening to and understanding their women customers.”


I'm not an expert but 700 billion a year seems a bit high
Posted by RummelTiger
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:01 pm to
Runs to GoDaddy...

...grabs www.ladiesfirstfinancing.com...

...creates financial products revolving around fashion, beauty, and travel...

...profits to the tune of $7 tres commas p/yr.

This post was edited on 11/18/19 at 10:04 pm
Posted by bad93ex
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:01 pm to
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The problems are compounded by lack of women in senior management in the finance industry. Just 20% of finance executives globally are women, up from 16% in 2016, the report said.


Old white men are the problem
Posted by arcalades
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:01 pm to
Then who is keeping all that money? kudos to whoever is saving all that money
Posted by lynxcat
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:02 pm to
I’d love to see the calculations for that large if a figure. It would seem this assumes that women want significant banking services that they currently forfeit because they are underserved.

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For example, if insurers sold life policies to women at the same rate as to men, they could generate $500 billion in new premiums, Oliver Wyman estimated.


Ok...so 71% if the $700B is from life insurance policies for women. Why would all women (or better said, the same rate as men) need to have a life insurance policy? There are benefits to marriage; not everyone needs a life insurance policy. Men are still the breadwinner in the majority of households and are the ones covered by such policies.
This post was edited on 11/18/19 at 10:07 pm
Posted by upgrayedd
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:03 pm to
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I'm not an expert but 700 billion a year seems a bit high

No one leaves the better part of a trillion dollars on the table because muh sexism
Posted by Vrai
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:05 pm to
Don't pitch the bitch
Posted by Jimbeaux
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:05 pm to
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failing to listen to or tailor products for women,


What does a financial product tailored to women look like?

Does it earn better interest? If so, I’d like to get a shot at that womyn portfolio cash!
Posted by slackster
Houston
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:05 pm to
Are women not investing because they're ignored? I find that hard to believe at that scale.
Posted by cable
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:07 pm to
It's just more b.s. to pander to some women's desire to be a victim and not held accountable for their own bad decisions.
Posted by Dandy Lion
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:08 pm to
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leaving money on the table

hate this saying
Posted by lynxcat
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:09 pm to
I can buy women not being served well from a financial advising standpoint but that’s not just women rather the general population. The industry makes financial planning wayyyyy more complex than it needs to be and profiteers because of it.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:09 pm to
women. investment. business. empowerment.
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:09 pm to
Women arent good at saving money. Open a financial advisor office next to a shoe store and see which one gets the action
Posted by slackster
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:10 pm to
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I'm not an expert but 700 billion a year seems a bit high




$700B is roughly 6x the revenue of JPMorgan. There is simply no way that kind of money is on the sidelines.
Posted by Maytheporkbewithyou
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:14 pm to
Don't know about y'all, but my wife doesn't give two shites about finances. She leaves all of that up to me. How would somebody cater to her when she doesn't care?
Posted by Jimbeaux
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:16 pm to
I’ve got an investment plan for women:

First, women have to agree to let their best friend go into their closet when they’re not looking and steal all of their skinny clothes and uncomfortable party shoes that they no longer wear.

Then those clothes are sold to other women at the Women’s Financial Investment Fashions clothing store.

The money is then invested in your typical mutual funds.

Profit.
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:16 pm to
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For example, if insurers sold life policies to women at the same rate as to men, they could generate $500 billion in new premiums, Oliver Wyman estimated. Women also tend to hold more of their assets in cash rather than stocks and bonds, costing wealth and asset managers a potential $25 billion in fees.



Some of the shady math.
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:19 pm to
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Don't know about y'all, but my wife doesn't give two shites about finances. She leaves all of that up to me. How would somebody cater to her when she doesn't care?


The counter would be your wife doesn't care because no one has tried to appeal to her, but your story is pretty similar across the country.
This post was edited on 11/18/19 at 10:19 pm
Posted by MF Doom
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Posted on 11/18/19 at 10:26 pm to
Good.

They can have all the gay little star wars and superhero movies they want just stay away from the finance industry alrite babe
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