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Podcast: The Financial Planner Life Podcast
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Female Folio, a network supporting women on their investment journey – Claire Barker
Category: Business
Duration: 00:47:54
Publish Date: 2022-06-09 10:00:00
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This week Elena is joined by Claire Barker, Marketing and Communications Director for Brooks Mcdonald. Claire is here to talk about Brooks Mcdonald’s exciting project called Female Folio, a network to support high net worth and affluent women on their investment journey. Women have more financial power than ever before, with more than 60% of the UK’s wealth expected to be in their hands by 2025. Female Folio talk about savings and investing in a different way, an inspiring way, a way that empowers women to write their own investment story. In this episode we also talk about the importance of having someone in a communications role within your firm, the difference between investing patterns of men and women, inter-generational wealth, intra-generational wealth and how we can break down the knowledge barrier for women around financial planning. 

For more information on Female Folio you can visit their website here: https://www.femalefolio.com/ 

We cover: 

  • Claire’s career journey 
  • Moving from a different industry into the financial profession 
  • What a communications and marketing role entails 
  • What is Female Folio? 
  • What are the barriers for women seeking financial advice? 
  • Ways in which men and women invest differently 

 

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