By 2026, women in Canada will control close to half of all accumulated financial wealth, according to the Investor Economics Household Balance Sheet Report (Canada, 2017). This significant increase – compared to a decade earlier when the share was closer to one-third – will in part be fuelled by a significant flow of inheritances to women of all ages in Canada, roughly estimated by Strategic Insight to represent up to $900-billion in financial and real assets over the next decade. 

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