Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you haven't added much. It's only when you add something different that you really are able to accomplish more.

Men tend to leave their financial adviser at a single-digit-percent rate in any given year. And women leave their husband and their joint financial adviser in the year after their spouse's death at a rate of greater than 70 percent - seven-zero.

Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.