Sandy Chaikin is a former Marketing and PR exec turned investor. She is married to stock market expert Marc Chaikin. Sandy has gone from a novice to a knowledgeable investor – from investing strictly in mutual funds in early 2012, to a confident investor who has built a stock portfolio that ...more

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Why Women Must Be Fearless Investors
Times are changing. Women are closing the gap on earnings: 40% of women out-earn their spouses and 9 in 10 women are, at some point, the sole financial household decision maker. Yet 72% of women don't feel confident in making such decisions.
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AAL American Airlines Group Inc
AAPL Apple Inc.
ANTM Anthem, Inc.
APOL Apollo Education Group Inc. (Private)
AVGO Broadcom Ltd
BBY Best Buy Co.
BIDU Baidu, Inc.
BUNL PowerShares DB German Bund Futures ETN
CELG Celgene Corporation
CHRW C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.
CLDX Celldex Therapeutics Inc
CRZO Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.
CTSH Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
DHR Danaher Corporation
DNB D&B Corporation
DSW DSW Inc.
EEFT Euronet Worldwide Inc.
EQR Equity Residential
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp
FIS Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
FSIGX Fidelity Series Investment Grade Bond Fund
FXB CurrencyShares British Pound Sterling Trust
FXE Euro Currency Trust
GLUU Glu Mobile Inc.
HON Honeywell International Inc.
IBB iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund
IPG Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.
IYR iShares Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index Fund
JBLU JetBlue Airways Corporation
LM Legg Mason Inc.
LO Lorillard Inc.
LUV Southwest Airlines Co.
MCK McKesson Corporation
MCO Moody's Corporation
MDT Medtronic Inc.
META Meta Platforms, Inc. (Formerly Facebook, Now META))
MHFI McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.
MU Micron Technology Inc.
NWSA News Corporation
PFE Pfizer Inc.
PGBOX Jpmorgan Core Bond A
RSG Republic Services Inc.
RTN Raytheon Company NOW RTX
SPX S&P 500 Index
TEL TE Connectivity Ltd.
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
TSLA Tesla Motors Inc.
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc.
VALE Vale S.A.
VLO Valero Energy Corporation
WBA Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
WTW Weight Watchers International Inc.
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Why Women Must Be Fearless Investors
I, too, was intimated by investing and the Wall Street jargon I didn’t understand. In reality, however, there are simple principles to follow that can make investing easy. My goal is to help women build the confidence to invest successfully.
Women Consistently Cite Wanting More Financial Involvement, Why Don’t They Have It?
Women make up a significant, yet underserved market for financial services. In a CNN Money article on female investors,“already 40% of women out-earn their spouses, So if women are outliving, and sometimes out-earning, their spouses, why isn’t the financial services industry catering to them more?

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