Kim Sharan, President of Financial Planning and Wealth Strategies & Chief Marketing Officer for Ameriprise Financial, has been a passionate advocate for women investors and women financial planners since day one of her career. “When I first started out there were so few women in this industry,” Sharan told me when we met in early August. […]
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In Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic magazine cover story about women’s difficulty of “having it all,” she argued that high-profile women who have both a thriving career and family can set an impossible standard for other women. She writes: “To be sure, the women who do make it to the top are highly committed to their profession.
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This past July I was thrilled to launch the WE Interviews series. Since then, twice a month, this blog has featured an interview with a C-Suite woman, sharing her own struggles, triumphs, and, most importantly, her advice on how to build a successful career in the world of financial services. It has been an honor for me
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Bridget Macaskill President and CEO First Eagle Investment Management Bridget Macaskill, President and CEO of First Eagle Investment Management, became a pioneer of the mutual fund industry by asking a simple question: How do women relate to money? It was 1992, and Macaskill, who was then the President and COO of Oppenheimer Funds, was frustrated
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Ann-Marie Campbell’s rise up the ranks of Home Depot, from cashier to Divisional President, is the kind of story that instills confidence in the health of the American Dream. For almost three decades, Campbell has steadily climbed the company’s corporate ladder, rung by rung, learning the business from the ground up. Today she is responsible
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Kathleen Powers Dunlap, Managing Director and Head of the Institutional Investor Team at Barclays Capital, has had a rich, interesting and highly successful career spanning over 30 years of Institutional Investment Management experience, but her ascent to the top has not been without struggles – especially when she was started out in the industry in 1978.
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With more women occupying high-profile corporate and government positions than ever before, an honest discourse about work/life balance is beginning to unfold on the public stage. From Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s TED talks going viral to former Obama administration official Anne-Marie Slaughter’s June cover story in The Atlantic, the central question at the core of
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Gabriela Franco Parcella CEO Mellon Capital Gabriela Franco Parcella is not your stereotypical Asset Management CEO. A first-generation Mexican-American woman who started off in the legal department of Mellon Capital, Parcella advanced from lawyer, to General Counsel, then, in 2008, to COO. In March of 2011, Parcella landed the top spot when she was named Mellon Capital’s
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Marie Chandoha President and CEO Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. Marie Chandoha, President and Chief Executive Officer at Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., has a well-earned reputation for being an ace at growing asset management businesses. An economics major at Harvard, Chandoha has held senior positions in fixed income at Credit Suisse, and Wells Capital
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Anne Finucane, Bank of America’s Global Strategy and Marketing Chief, faces the unique challenge of rebranding and repositioning Bank of America, one of the world’s top brands before the global economic crisis, which has faced enormous challenges during the past four years. Noted by The New York Times as one of the most powerful figures
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