"Kim Nordmo, who founded Artience Capital in San Francisco in 2009, and manages about $55 million today, requires $1 million minimum. The relatively high bracket comes from her firm still being small, and boutique-y. But that doesn’t mean she would turn prospective clients away on that metric alone."
In the 2013 Wells Fargo Affluent Women Retirement Survey, researchers pointed out that 45% of affluent working women say the prospect of living in retirement without a paycheck is a problem they will attempt to solve by working longer.
September, 2015 featured in ETF.com
Kyla Spence, a rising junior at Bucknell University, had been leaning toward a career in investment banking, but after attending a symposium on wealth management for college students in May, she may choose financial advisory instead.
Women are a minority in the wealth-management business, making it difficult for clients who ask for female financial advisers
When she wanted to start Ellevest, a digital investment platform for women, Sallie Krawcheck approached several large banks for funding. She presented the concept, demonstrated the need and how large the market was, but nobody got it.