What financial advisors say women should know, according to Belle Burden’s Strangers

She had paid the bills for years. She had signed the tax returns. By most measures, Belle Burden was a participant in her household’s financial life, not a bystander. What she had not done was read those returns closely, question the accounts she had not set up, or map the full picture of what she and her husband owned together. When her twenty-year marriage collapsed in the second week of the 2020 pandemic lockdown, she found herself not only grief-stricken but financially uninformed, a gap...