Women live longer than men – yet spend significantly more of their lives in poor health.1 This gender health gap goes beyond physical wellbeing. It also shapes women's careers, income, family relationships, and long-term financial security.
So what does this mean for societies, economies and investors?
In its latest report, Women and Health: challenges and opportunities, our Chief Investment Office examines how health inequalities – including delayed diagnoses, chronic conditions, higher medical costs, and caregiving responsibilities – affect women and the wider world.
But the report also highlights how improving women's health outcomes can unlock healthier years of life, stronger workforce participation, and significant economic growth. In fact, closing the gender health gap could add at least USD 1 trillion to the global economy by 2040.1
Investing in women's wellbeing isn't just a health priority – it's an economic and social necessity.
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Combining expert analysis and deep-dive interviews with investors, clinicians and founders, the report explores why women's health is emerging as a compelling investment theme.
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Best Private Bank for Wealthy Women 2025
A third of the world’s total investable private wealth is now in women’s hands, and it’s growing faster than that of men. But there are differences in how women and men invest.
UBS has been at the forefront of understanding this change. We’ve taken decisive steps to focus on the unique financial needs of women whether they’re entrepreneurs or businesswomen, owners or inheritors of wealth.
We’re proud to have been recognized as the Best Private Bank for Wealthy Women 2025.2 Learn more about how we’re continuing to innovate to make UBS the preferred bank for wealthy women.
1. World Economic Forum & McKinsey Health Institute. (2024). Closing the Women’s Health Gap: A USD 1 Trillion Opportunity to Improve Lives and Economies. World Economic Forum.
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