Top Swedish Banker Takes Aim at Wealth Gap Between the Sexes
- Handelsbanken CEO wants to retrain financial advisers
- OECD study shows women lag far behind men in building savings
Carina Akerstrom.
Photographer: Janerik Henriksson/AFP/Getty Images
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The chief executive of Sweden’s biggest bank wants to retrain financial advisers to help female clients catch up to their male counterparts in accumulating wealth.
Carina Akerstrom, the CEO of Svenska Handelsbanken AB, says the goal is to go over the investment habits that women often have and that tend, on average, to lead to smaller savings when they retire.