| Women and finance: a hot market to tap? (at Fortune) Venture capitalist Theresia Ranzetta, who wrote Tuesday's Guest Post about how Silicon Valley can best enable entrepreneurs, did some serious enabling herself this week. Her firm, Accel Partners, announced a $4.5 million investment in LearnVest, a start-up aimed at women who control household purse strings but are fairly flummoxed by the challenge. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Why bets on synthetic CDOs must be banned (at FT.com) It is now a week since a civil suit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission sent shares in Goldman Sachs tumbling. us.rd.yahoo.com |
LSE's Rolet quits board of LCH.Clearnet (at Financial Times) Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, has stepped down from the board of LCH.Clearnet in the latest sign that the exchange is distancing itself from its long-standing clearing house and is closer to building its own clearing business. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Hosts Women's Leadership Receptions in Chicago and New York [Business Wire] - NEW YORK----Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced today it will be hosting Women’s Leadership receptions in Chicago and New York, focused on women, business and philanthropy. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Private equity sector kicking its heels [at Financial Times] - Six years ago, an all-woman team from Goldman Sachs GS, the US investment bank, showed up at a pitch to advise on the private equity sale of Jimmy Choo, shoemaker to the wealthy, wearing the company's luxury stilettos. us.rd.yahoo.com |