Women

WCM winners announced

Women in Capital Markets is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 WCM Executive Coaching Award Program, sponsored by BMO Nesbitt Burns. This is the third year of the program, which provides career coaching and development services from Felix Global Corp. to qualified senior women working in the capital markets in Canada.

By Steven Lamb |December 8, 2010

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Take her advice

A large percentage of women clients deliberately seek out women advisors when they’re looking for financial services. Results from our first-ever survey focusing on this demographic reveal 60% of the polled female advisors’ client base is made up of couples, while female clients, whether single, divorced or widowed, make up a full 25%. Considering female […]

By Nancy Turner |October 1, 2010

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Women’s numbers and voices

An interesting thing happened when we started crunching the numbers from our 2008 Annual Dollars & Sense Survey. That survey, which delved deeply into client life stages, found a large percentage of older women clients (people who were widowed or had experienced late-life divorce) had chosen female advisors. Those numbers were corroborated by comments from […]

By Nancy Turner |October 1, 2010

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