Tag: market performance

Investing can feel like a daunting task, especially in unpredictable markets with an overwhelming number of options. Many South Africans want to grow their wealth but are equally mindful of protecting what they have already built. The challenge is finding investments that offer both security and opportunity.

The renowned behavioural finance research duo, Barber and Odean, published a paper in 2001 entitled Boys will be boys that ruffled a few feathers. The duo studied and reported on the performance difference males versus females generated on their investments. Not only did they find a statistically significant difference in favour of women, but they also found that men had better investment performance in the mere presence of women.