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BUILDING WOMEN’S FINANCIAL HEALTH: AWARD-WINNING WEALTH ADVISOR KAREN ALTFEST
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Helping women become financially secure is a primary motivation for award-winning wealth advisor Karen Altfest. Altfest Personal Wealth Management’s Principal Advisor shares her women-centric approach.
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KAREN ALTFEST
- Executive Vice President, Principal Advisor,
- Altfest Personal Wealth Management
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF RETIREMENT SYSTEM ISN’T WORKING. RETIREMENT PRO TERESA GHILARDUCCI HAS SOLUTIONS
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The retirement crisis is real. 40% of older, middle-class workers and their spouses will fall into poverty or near poverty in retirement. Economist and retirement expert Teresa Ghilarducci says the U.S.’ 40-year experiment with do-it-yourself retirement is seriously flawed, but there are ways to fix it.
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THREE INSPIRING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS SHARE THEIR UNUSUAL ROUTES TO SUCCESS
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Running your own business is the definition of a dream job for increasing numbers of Americans, particularly women. I had the opportunity to interview a panel of women business founders recently at the Women of Leadership Summit hosted by the New York affiliate of ACG, the Association for Corporate Growth.
1 Atelier’s Stephanie Sarka enables women to design their own luxury handbags, S’well’s Sarah Kauss created a reusable water bottle which became the original fashion hydration accessory, and Paladin‘s Felicity Conrad transformed access to pro bono legal work. They share their visions, challenges, successes and mistakes and in the process help us take charge of our own career destinies. Listen to the conversation:
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PURPOSE MATTERS. PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY EXPERTS DESCRIBE THE NEW CIVIC AGE
Doing good has become a global movement. Philanthropy expert Pamela Norley and Corporate Social Responsibility consultant Toby Usnik describe the new civic age.
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INVEST WHERE OTHERS FEAR TO TREAD FOR INCOME AND APPRECIATION: EATON VANCE’S KATHLEEN GAFFNEY
If you were to name places in the world where you wouldn’t consider investing today what comes to mind? How about Venezuela where the economy is in ruins, the president discredited and the opposition mounting? Or a specific company in this country like Pacific Gas and Electric, PG&E for short, the California utility that filed for bankruptcy and bore the physical and legal brunt of the recent devastating California wildfires? Those are fertile ground for contrarian investors or just traditional value investors who look for opportunities where others fear to tread.
Globe-trotting Eaton Vance bond manager Kathleen Gaffney looks where others are fleeing for higher total returns.
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