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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“[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 […]
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: