Investment Week believes this is an ideal time to invite key players from the US fund arena to take part in a special “Focus on Investing in US Equity Funds” conference that will inform and further educate leading discretionaries and advisers about the subject – in the process crystallising themselves as market leaders in this field and maintaining awareness of their brands.
The deep pockets of donors in the financial sector have always been appealing to presidential candidates in both the Democratic and Republican parties, who make it a priority to cultivate support on Wall Street. Now that Wall Street darling and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is out of the presidential race, who do Wall Streeters favor in the upcoming election? Senator Obama emerges as a favorite over Senators Clinton and McCain, but, as with most financial decision-making, it’s complicated.
Sex In The City glamorized the image of the urban single woman, with a gorgeous apartment, a stylish wardrobe, an exciting life and means to pay for it all. Television has elevated the archetype of the powerful professional women to a cultural icon. With the premieres this season of Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle, two more sexy dramas about upwardly mobile women in their 30s, successful females have finally hit the limelight.
Ever notice that, on these shows, the characters always live in unrealistically spectacular apartments? Do you wonder if real women in a similar situation can afford to own such nice digs? Well, art must be imitating life because as women move up the corporate ladder, they also move up the property ladder.
For this Voice of Experience article, The Glass Hammer focused on Julia Mord, a young woman on the rise at a New York-based boutique investment management firm.
Julia is an Investment Analyst at a private investment office that manages money for a high net worth family. The firm manages two alternative investment portfolios that invest predominantly in both private equity and hedge funds. She is one of five investment professionals in the small office, which includes a fund manager, two analysts, an accounting manager and an intern. Read more
In the return of The Glass Hammer’s Intrepid Women series, we sent our own Kathryn Nilsson Reichert to learn how to play poker well enough to beat the gentlemen at their own game. Here, she describes the results…
Card games were never interesting to me. In fact, aside from an occasional game of solitaire while traveling, the last time I remember playing cards was a game of “go fish” with my grandmother when I was in junior high school. I have never owned a deck of cards nor felt the need to buy one.
Naturally, I was less than enthused when a girlfriend called me recently and said, “Come with me to a women’s poker party tomorrow night!” My first thought was, why? It’s cold outside and it’s already been a long week at work. Besides, thinking about poker conjured up images of men in cheap suits in Vegas casinos hunched over tables for hours, slowly burning through wads of cash. “Don’t be a wet blanket,” my friend said. “Poker is the ‘game du jour.’ We can learn how to play and do some quality business networking at the same time.”
Contributed by Rebecca Chong, Rooks Rider Solicitors. Erin Abrams contributed some information to this article.
“Heterosexuality isn’t normal, just common,” British artist and gay activist Derek Jarman once quipped. Although the general population has become increasingly aware of sexual diversity in the workplace, particularly since the Gay Pride movement took on a more moderate face in the 1980s. It helped to raise the positive profile of gay men and lesbians when respected celebrities came out of the closet. For example, Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneris, high-profile lesbians, are popular talk show hosts who have been involved in a variety of advertising campaigns.
However, even though people in the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community are increasingly accepted as such at work, there is still a disturbing trend of defining individuals by their sexual identity. Unfortunately, the stereotypes based on a person’s sexual orientation that have emerged, and that are perpetuated by the entertainment industry, sometimes permeate the workplace and affect employer’s perceptions about who is well-suited for a job and what kind of employee that person might be.
“[My platform] is to make sure that my kids have their heads on straight. We can talk about [that] high-falutin’ notion … but here I am, a woman professional who has to work on top of my first job as a mother.”
Sounds like a statement that could have been made by any working mom in America. But it wasn’t just an ordinary mom, struggling to make ends meet between a full-time job and full-time parenting. It was Michelle Obama, wife of presidential hopeful Barack Obama, explaining to a voter that she hadn’t really given much thought to her “First Spouse” platform, because her duties as a mother and her job as a hospital administrator took precedence.
The event is geared to women in their ultimate or penultimate year of study interested in a career in Operations, Finance, Business Management and Technology. This is an opportunity for networking and informal discussion around careers at JPMorgan. Places are limited.
In addition to the widely shared challenges of finding and keeping mentors, the program also will address mentoring issues unique to women and lawyers of color. Going beyond the basics of self-marketing, this program will illustrate appropriate methods for gaining positive recognition from senior associates, partners, and clients.
It was standing room only at London Business School on January 31, 2008, as executives from around London came to hear tips and stories from four senior women who have risen through the ranks while working flexibly. Kate Grussing, Managing Director and Founder of Sapphire Partners, moderated the panel. Some advice recurred throughout the evening: