Les hommes, investisseurs plus audacieux que les femmes
Les femmes versent moitié moins dans leur REER 12 janvier 2005
Par Jean-François Barbe
Les différences hommes-femmes continuent toujours à s'appliquer dans la sphère des investissements, les premiers étant plus audacieux avec des rendements potentiels plus élevés, les secondes, plus prudentes et faisant davantage appel à des conseillers.
Les hommes détiennent plus d'actions et de fonds communs de placement (FCP) alors que les femmes prévoient cotiser beaucoup moins, d'après un sondage de TD Waterhouse.
Les mêmes proportions d'hommes que de femmes détiennent des REER (79% contre 77%). Toutefois, les femmes planifient de verser seulement 56% du montant que les hommes cotiseront cette année à leurs REER (3 450$ comparativement à 6 130$).
Les hommes ont plus tendance que les femmes à investir dans les actions(40% contre 33%), les FCP (59% contre 52%) et les fonds de titres à revenu fixe (12% contre 6%).
Plus de la moitié des femmes (57% contre 42% des hommes) ne connaissent pas le montant dont elles auront besoin à leur retraite, et une proportion inférieure de femmes par rapport aux hommes (41% contre 47%) a calculé ce montant. Les femmes croient également qu'elles auront besoin d'un coussin de retraite considérablement moins important que celui des hommes (627 000$ contre 797 000$).
Le conseiller
Les femmes utilisent davantage les services d'un professionnel que les hommes (77% contre 64%), en sont très satisfaites (49% contre 41%) et préféreraient laisser quelqu'un d'autre s'occuper des détails de leurs placements (35% contre 28%).
Seulement 24% des femmes, comparativement à 41% des hommes, ont extrêmement confiance ou très confiance en leur capacité de vivre une retraite confortable. Davantage de femmes que d'hommes (46% contre 36%) disent qu'elles compteront sur les régimes publics à leur retraite. Plus de femmes que d'hommes (44% contre 27%) trouvent que l'investissement est une source de stress élevée ou modérée, citant le manque de temps.
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Gender gap still wide when it comes to investing, according to TD Waterhouse RSP Poll
- Men more confident than women about meeting retirement goals, more
likely to own stocks and mutual funds
- Women more concerned about rising healthcare costs, having enough
money to retire comfortably
- Women plan to contribute significantly less than men but make monthly
contributions
TORONTO, Jan. 11 /CNW/ - The difference between the sexes is still a
predominant theme when it comes to RSP investing, according to a recent
TD Waterhouse RSP Poll.
Almost the same proportion of men and women own RSPs (79% vs. 77%), but
that is where the similarity ends. When it comes to types of investments,
investing habits, use of advice, expectations for returns and concerns about
retirement, successive TD Waterhouse polls have demonstrated conclusively that
- relative to men - women are more cautious RSP investors, have more worries
about maintaining their living standard and access to healthcare in
retirement, find investing itself to be more stressful, and feel they don't
know how much they need to retire comfortably.
Consistent with their more cautious approach to investing, women are also
more likely than men to rely on - and be satisfied with - professional
financial advice and to make monthly rather than lump sum contributions to
their RSPs.
The poll found that:
- On average, women plan to contribute only 56% of what men will
contribute to their RSPs this year ($3450 vs. $6130).
- Men are significantly more likely than women to own stocks (40% vs.
33%), mutual funds (59% vs. 52%) and income trusts (12% vs. 6%).
- Fewer women than men feel extremely or very knowledgeable about
investing (12% vs. 18%). More than half of women (57%) don't know how
much they will need to retire (vs. 42% of men), and fewer women have
calculated what they will need (41% vs. 47%).
- They also feel they need considerably less of a retirement nest-egg
than men -$627,000 vs. $797,000. However, this is markedly higher than
what was reported in last year's poll ($399,000 for women, $623,000
for men).
"Add it all up and the retirement picture for women continues to be
notably bleaker than for men," says Patricia Lovett-Reid, Senior Vice
President, TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. "The gender differences are both large
and persistent year after year. While our poll deals with attitudes,
expectations and intentions rather than actual life experiences, the
socio-economic implications are real indeed. According to Statistics Canada,
almost four times as many single women over age 65 were living below the
poverty line in Canada in 2002 than single men."
"While women are closing the gap with men when it comes to assessing the
size of the retirement nest-egg they will need, I am still concerned about how
they are going to achieve their objectives," continues Lovett-Reid. "Our poll
shows that women plan to contribute considerably less than men this year, and
the gap seems to be widening over previous years. And while there are no
marked gender differences in what people say is their risk tolerance, women
are nonetheless choosing lower-risk, lower return investments which
compromises their potential earnings over time, and they are showing more
hesitance about getting back into the markets."
Other poll findings:
- Women are more likely to make monthly contributions compared to men.
- More women use professional advice than men (77% vs. 64%), are very
satisfied with it (49% vs. 41%) and would rather have someone else
worry about the details of investing (35% vs. 28%).
- Only 24% of women are extremely or very confident of their ability to
retire in comfort versus 41% of men.
- Men are more likely than women to say it's a good time to invest
whereas women are unsure.
- More women than men (46% vs. 36%) say they will rely on the Canada
Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan or Old Age Security in retirement.
- More women than men find investing highly or somewhat stressful
(44% vs. 27%), citing the fact that they don't have enough time to
evaluate their options or that they don't have enough money to invest.
- Women are more likely than men to be concerned about retirement issues
such as the privatization of healthcare (57% vs. 43%), the rising cost
of healthcare (62% vs. 48%), maintaining their current living standard
in retirement (48% vs. 39%) and not having sufficient money to last
through retirement (44% vs. 32%).
- Fewer employed women than men say they will likely be working past the
mandatory retirement age (30% vs. 37%). However, among all respondents
who expect to work past 65, far more men than women say they want to
do so (82% vs. 59%). Among the same category (i.e. those who expect to
work past retirement), many more women feel they will be forced to do
so than men (41% vs. 18%).
"The overall impression from our poll findings is that women are more
worried than men about their financial security in retirement, yet they are
more disengaged from the process of investing and are less aggressive in
taking the steps needed to achieve a comfortable retirement," concludes
Lovett-Reid. "Fewer women have taken even the first step, which is to properly
calculate what income they will need when they are retired.
"If Canadians want to reduce the poverty gap between men and women in
retirement, then somehow we have to find ways to provide more women with
investment skills and confidence so that this gap can be closed forever."
About TD Waterhouse
TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage, TD Waterhouse Financial Planning,
TD Waterhouse Institutional Services, TD Waterhouse Private Investment Advice
and TD Waterhouse Partner Services are divisions of TD Waterhouse Canada Inc.,
a subsidiary of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. - Member
CIPF. TD Waterhouse Private Client Services means the Toronto-Dominion Bank
and its related companies that provide deposit, investment, loan securities,
trust and other products and services. With more than one million client
accounts, TD Waterhouse is a Canadian leader in wealth management and can be
found on the internet at
www.tdwaterhouse.ca. About TD Bank Financial Group
The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as
TD Bank Financial Group. In Canada and around the world, TD Bank Financial
Group serves more than 13 million customers in three key businesses: personal
and commercial banking including TD Canada Trust; wealth management including
the global operations of TD Waterhouse; and wholesale banking, including TD
Securities, operating in a number of locations in key financial centres around
the globe. TD Bank Financial Group also ranks among the world's leading
on-line financial services firms, with more than 4.5 million on-line
customers. TD Bank Financial Group had CDN$311 billion in assets, as of
October 31, 2004. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the Toronto and New York
Stock Exchanges under the symbol "TD".
For more information, please click on the attached link to the RSP web
site:
http://media.tdassetmanagement.com/rsp/2005rsp.aspFor further information: Lisa Hodgins, NATIONAL Public Relations,
(416) 848-1441,
lhodgins@national.ca; Stephen Ledgley, NATIONAL Public
Relations, (416) 848-1376,
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