Interview De Financiële Telegraaf
Only a third of women invest, against two thirds of men. Over a lifetime, that adds up to a real gap in the wealth women build for themselves. Closing the gender wealth gap is exactly what our portfolio partner Female Invest sets out to do, and last weekend De Financiële Telegraaf, one of the Netherlands’ biggest newspapers, put their mission in the spotlight.
Founders Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen and Camilla Cloëtta Falkenberg built the financial education they never got themselves and turned it into a platform that now reaches well past a million women. And they keep it refreshingly down to earth. As Anna-Sophie puts it, opening an investment account is quicker than making a cup of coffee. Set aside a fixed amount each month, let it compound, and over time it changes your life.
So why do so few women take that step? Our partner Ilonka Jankovich has a clear take in the interview. It is rarely about ability. Women tend to start later, and most were never taught how investing actually works. Change that, and the effect goes well beyond returns. Financial independence gives women more control over their own lives, and a real say in the choices that follow, from career to family to where their money goes next.
That is why we back Female Invest. When more women start investing closes the gender wealth gap a little further, and that is worth backing.
