Women keen to invest but worry about losing money - research

The study, which surveyed 1,094 women, found half (51%) of respondents were worried about losing money as a result of picking the wrong investment. A similar proportion (47%), however, thought women were "at least as confident as men" when it came to investing their money. Elsewhere, the research found that, while a third of women said advisers would be their first port of call for financial advice, 37% felt advisers were too expensive. The participants said consumer finance websites would be their second choice (24%) to help them with their investment decisions, while a close relativ...