Women who relinquish all financial decision-making to spouses or others, do so at their own peril

That’s the subheading of the InvestmentNews Editorial article. An excerpt:

Because of the obvious mess resulting from one person’s being omitted from decisions of serious consequence to their well-being, the status quo in handling a couple’s finances is not good enough.

“The onus is on the financial adviser to include the wife as a core contributor to the financial planning process so that each has an equal voice,” Vance Barse, wealth strategist at Manning Wealth Management, said in Mr. Schoeff’s cover story.

See Women Still Aren’t Part of the Conversation. They Must Be. in InvestmentNews Editorial.