Hong Kong, July 6 -- The cliche of women being bad investors or needing to rely on others for it needs to be put to bed right now. Siddhant Raizada, chief marketing officer at Kristal.AI, says there is plenty data to suggest otherwise. Why women are better at investing, we investigate.

Sometime last year, while having a chat with a woman professional, I asked her about her investments. "I leave the money decisions to my husband," was the prompt reply. If she was the typical caricature of a homemaker, perhaps I wouldn't have been surprised. Since this person had taken her career by the metaphorical horns, and worked in a financial institution, I wondered why this was the case.

This raised my curiosity. And being in the wealth management ...