The $124 Trillion Shift And What It Changes

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$124 trillion is transferring from one generation to the next. Women will receive the majority of it. How women think about capital, risk, and what they want their wealth to do in the world is reshaping the conditions under which private wealth must perform.

That is not a social observation. It is a structural shift and one of the most significant investment positioning opportunities of the next decade. This platform exists at the exact intersection of those two realities.

Who I am

I'm Maryann Selfe, Managing Director, global wealth strategist, 25 years inside private banking and institutional capital markets in Europe and internationally.

After 25 years inside institutional finance, I left to build something I couldn't do from the inside: an independent platform that takes women's health seriously as a capital category, and takes women seriously as capital allocators.

I write for Professional Wealth Management (the FT's wealth management publication) and Institutional Investor and my book, The Billion Dollar Blindspot, publishes May 26, 2026.

I am also the convenor of The Capital Circle, a carefully-curated, invite-only quarterly private dinner series for accomplished HNW women who are actively deciding where to deploy their capital.

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The thesis in four paragraphs

Women's health is one of the most persistent market inefficiencies in modern healthcare. Despite representing half the global population, women's health has been systematically under-researched, under-measured, and undercapitalised. That is not a medical problem. It is a mispricing and mispricings, when they correct, can create extraordinary returns for the investors who saw them first.

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Simultaneously, the greatest wealth transfer in history is underway. $124 trillion is moving between generations, and women will receive a disproportionate share of it. Women already control more wealth than at any previous point in history and that number is accelerating.

The $124 Trillion Shift

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Here is what makes this moment extraordinary: the women receiving this capital are not passive. They are sophisticated. They outperform men as investors. They allocate differently with longer time horizons, higher conviction in values-aligned categories, and a demonstrated willingness to deploy into private markets when they are given the right on-ramp.

Why Women Investors Outperform Men and What Wall Street Still Doesn’t See

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Women's health is that on-ramp. It is the category where the mispricing is largest, the market formation is earliest, and the alignment between personal conviction and financial return is most complete. The investor who sees this first and builds the relationships, the knowledge, and the portfolio exposure now will be positioned for what comes next.

The $1 Trillion Investment Opportunity in Women’s Health: What You Need to Know

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That is what this platform is about.

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How to go deeper

If this work resonates, here are a few ways to engage:

Subscribe to this newsletter – capital intelligence on women’s health and wealth, every week.

Preorder the book – The Billion Dollar Blindspot publishes May 26, 2026. It is the institutional investment case in full.

The Capital Circle – Are you a HNW woman actively thinking about how to align your capital with your values and want to connect with other accomplished HNW women from all fields all exploring the same questions in a highly curated space? this might be the room for you. See if you qualify. Invitation only.

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