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Welcome to our #231 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we spotlight a short extract from our interview on The Purse Podcast with Pierre Rolin, who founded Ankh Impact Ventures in 2020. Pierre invests in female and diverse founders globally and has a very powerful message for male investors about why they...

Welcome to our #230 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight the Labour government’s plans to tackle the ‘funding issue’ for female and ethnic minority founders. They also aim to address the financial exclusion of women. In the meantime, a new taskforce has been set up to create a £250m fund aimed...

Welcome to our #229 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight that the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) released their final report Thursday which said ‘thousands of women may have been affected by the Department and Work Pension’s (DWP) failure to adequately inform them that the st...

Welcome to our #228 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we focus on a recent study in Norway which suggests that traditional gender patterns and stereotypes in financial investments persist in the crypto sector: men are more than twice as likely to invest in cryptocurrencies compared to women. However, thi...

Welcome to our #227 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse We hope you had a chance to celebrate International Women’s Day! In this week’s newsletter, we focus on research by Boring Money which highlights the growing gender investment gap in the UK. Although women’s risk aversion and lack of money confidence is often used to explain wh...

Welcome to our #226 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse It’s good to be back! In this week’s newsletter, we focus on a recent survey by Ellevest (US) which centres on women being the beneficiaries of ‘The Great Wealth Transfer’ in this decade. In the UK, women will own the majority of private wealth by 2025-which is less than one ye...

Welcome to our #222 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we focus on the rising childcare costs in the UK/US, and how this continues to impact women who bear the burden of childcare. But change is afoot in the UK-read on for more. And don’t forget to listen to The Purse Podcast interview with Roxane Sanguin...

Welcome to our #221 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we spotlight homeownership (US) of single parents and the impact on their net worth, compared to single non-parents. And we highlight homeownership data for women in the UK. And don’t forget to listen to The Purse Podcast interview with David Hayman,...

Welcome to our #220 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we focus on new legislation (UK) being introduced on 31 January which will negatively impact female investors in the startup ecosystem. But there is an option for women to qualify as a ‘sophisticated investor’ if they do not meet the financial thresho...

Welcome to our #219 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight new research by Columbia University which has calculated the penalties for motherhood (US). Drawing on two decades’ worth of earnings and employment data for hundreds of thousands of families, the research is the most statistically powerf...

Welcome to our #218 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse Happy New Year! It’s good to be back… In this week’s newsletter, we focus on the expected SEC approval this week of the first spot bitcoin ETF (US) and revisit research on how engaged women are in crypto. There continues to be limited data on women investors in crypto. Since 20...

Welcome to our #216 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we spotlight the changing relationship women have with money in the 2020s. And don’t forget to The Purse Podcast interview with Professor Dame Heather McGregor. We talk about COP28, climate finance and why investing in climate change is also investing...

Welcome to our #215 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight the research by Carta which tracks the state of equity in the startup ecosystem (US). And whilst we are seeing overall improvement, women continue to be underrepresented in executive positions and receive a smaller slice of the equity pie...

Welcome to our #214 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight new figures which show that women in their thirties are £4,000+ per year worse off than they were in 2010. We calculate if women had invested this amount per year at a 7% return, how much additional investment income they would have today...

Welcome to our #213 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we summarise the key points from the survey by The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting in 2023. And we highlight women investors and trends in adding more female artists to collections. But investing in art need not only be for high-net wort...

Welcome to our #212 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we spotlight new research which outlines what women look for in financial services products. And therefore how they can feel more included by the financial services industry which typically targets the male customer. *** And you can review the news in...

Welcome to our #211 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight new research which indicates that male workers saved an average 30% more than in 2022, whereas women only increased their savings by 7% over the same period. For this reason, the cost-of-living crisis is having a more profound affect on w...

Welcome to our #210 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we focus on a recent study by Fidelity Investments (US) which shows that women are leaning into their money and investing more than ever before. Fidelity added 48% more new women customers in 2023 compared to 2019. *** And you can review the news in b...

Welcome to our #209 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we spotlight a short extract from The Purse Podcast interview with Sarah Courtney Dockett, who is Managing Director for Citi Private Bank, Women in Wealth for EMEA. We talk about women’s growing economic power, how the financial services industry need...

Welcome to our #208 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight the new UN Report “The Gender Snapshot 2023” which warns that if current trends continue, over 340m women and girls – an estimated 8% of the world’s female population – will live in extreme poverty by 2030, and close to one in four will e...

Welcome to our #207 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight the new report published by The Alan Turing Institute which states that female-founded AI startups account for under 3% of VC funding in the UK. A key issue in the industry is the fact that VC firms continue to be dominated by men who pre...

Welcome to our #205 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we highlight a report by the National Partnership for Women & Families in the US. The new data analysis confirms a startling result: the gender pay gap costs women $1.6 trillion per year (US). There are a few reasons for this. But crucially, women mus...

Welcome to our #203 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we spotlight a short extract from The Purse Podcast interview with Anam Parvez Butt, a Pakistani feminist economist who currently works as the Head of Research at Oxfam GB. We talk about the GDP (gross domestic product) measure, why it is problematic...

Welcome to our #202 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we focus on UK-based bladder health startup founded by Peony Li which has raised $4.24m from female and impact investors. Peony founded this startup based on her personal experience of chronic bladder infections from a young age-which were frequently...

Welcome to our #201 weekly newsletter. “For women taking control of their financial future” -Jana Hlistova From The Purse In this week’s newsletter, we cover the gender pension gap and a recent report which forecasts that women’s weekly income will be half of their male peers, by 2045. The gender pension gap in private pensions is currently estimated at 35%, according to the Department of Work and...