Living longer, more women sharpen skills for investing

We all know women live longer than men.

That’s what the actuarial tables say, anyway. (Just in case you’re curious, the average life expectancy for women was 80 in 2007, and for men, it was 75.)

With that in mind, Peter Braun, a financial adviser at UBS Financial Services Inc. in Boulder and other Boulder area wealth managers recommend that all of you women reading this are going to need to save more money than your male counterparts if you want to live comfortably in your golden years.

We may have heard this before, but it doesn’t hurt to hear it again –…