Both women and men need to get involved in advancing women in the capital markets industry, says a new report.
While women are taking charge in the workplace, they continue to lag behind men in financial planning. The gender gap widened in Q1 2012, according to a report by Financial Finesse, an American financial education company.
Women’s entrepreneurship has grown more than 200% over the past 20 years. Make sure their hard-won assets don’t disappear during divorce
Divorcing spouses must revisit their wills, beneficiaries and Powers of Attorney as soon as they’ve decided to separate.
Over the last three decades, the rich have gotten richer in Canada, with individual income inequality growing by 16%. Families have been affected, but the greatest divide is between individuals, with the top 1 % scoring incomes fourteen times larger than the average Canadian.
The vast majority (95%) of female execs say raising children has provided them with unique skills that help them succeed, says a survey by Korn/Ferry Institute. These talents include heightened confidence and the ability to motivate and inspire others.
Presidential election years are touchy things. Back in 1992 Alan Greenspan aggressively pushed down interest rates in an attempt to save his friend George H.W. Bush from the recession triggered by the Gulf War and decreases in military spending spurred by the fall of the Soviet Union. It didn’t work, but the Fed was accused […]
Are your clients passionate about social issues, such as the promotion of women? If so, gender lens and social investing can help them stick to their values and earn returns at the same time.
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Stéfanie Pelletier, vice-president of Finance for Laurentian Bank, was honoured recently with an Aces of Finance Award in the Emerging Financial Executive category.