Elizabeth MacBride

Taking Elizabeth’s point one step further, increasing numbers of female financial advisors have virtually crashed that glass ceiling. They are flourishing alongside their male counterparts and making vast contributions to the RIA and investment management industries.

Hilarious that when Warren gasps: "attempt to rip billions of dollars of retirement savings from the pockets of hardworking Americans and put straight into the hands of giant financial institutions" that the supporters she lauds: Betterment, XY Planning and Personal Capital, will be the new beneficiaries of those $billions. What a bunch of rubes.

How Time magazine's "Sheriff" article about Mary Schapiro, Sheila Blair and Elizabeth Warren misses the mark

Articles in the mainstream media have framed Mary Schapiro as an outsider set to clean up the Street.

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Sheila Blair

The RIA business is many good things but integrated from a gender standpoint is not one of them. This is not so great. Women are the majority of humanity and they have an asset-building strategy that can't be beat. Women outlive their beer-and-steak mates and end up with big estates. But today's women have too another strategy -- pursuing wealth in the workplace. Yet when they go to find fellow women to talk all this through with, they don't readily find them. 

Companies big and small have for decades fallen over themselves to say that they have women's initiatives but I can't think of one that has amounted to much. But there are stories-- dozens or hundreds -- of them about women exerting their influence on this business and we are starting to collect them. It's a starting place -- documenting the ground being covered by women in the form of engaging tales graphically depicted by the physiognomy of the fairer sex.

Women of Wealth Management

Applying the busting-through-the-glass-ceiling narrative to women presumes that they haven't already

How Time magazine's "Sheriff" article about Mary Schapiro, Sheila Blair and Elizabeth Warren misses the mark

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