Oscar de la Renta chose not to show at New York Fashion Week and instead streamed on Amazon. Is Amazon a suitable forum for a luxury brand? CEO Alex Bolen said, "I'm not sure. But we have to experiment with new ways to get our story out." https://lnkd.in/g4rZMxyb We launched our funds when Covid started and with the halt in travel and tough fund raising environment for emerging managers, we focused on performance and experimented with new ways to reach out to allocators, namely Linkedin posts and YouTube videos which can now be binge-watched on www.quantflix.com . True, some people say that with the positive fund returns last year for both our long-only equity and multi-strategy funds, and the China fund outperforming its benchmark by its annualized double-digit aim, it was expected that we would pass the $100m mark. But when times are bad, most new investment monies went to well-known funds that are much bigger with a marketing budget that we cannot afford. So every lit...
"I am heartbroken today. I am heartbroken for people around this country who just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their own bodies." - Michelle Obama
The US just went back 50 years for women's rights - The landmark decision of Roe v. Wade was handed down in 1973, which legalized abortion nationwide. Today, women in the country I went to college, where I lived and worked for over 10 years, the country which I thought offered equal rights and opportunity to women, lost their federal right to choose to have an abortion. I am heartened however to know that a number of companies, including my former employer JPMorgan, will be covering travel costs for employees who need an abortion.
Closer to home, I read a letter yesterday from a lawyer challenging my qualifications as an expert, even going so far as to say that my litigation support business practice will shut down soon, because the firm won't get any business given that the sole male partner had left more than a year ago. Not only does this male lawyer not want to work with female expert witnesses, he believes NO ONE wants to use female experts without a male chaperone.
Doesn't matter that Judge Chua Lee Ming said in Meow Moy Lan and others v. Exklusiv Resorts Pte Ltd and another [2021] SGHC 155 that "Yak's approach is reasonable and logical", and accepted my findings. Doesn't matter that I had founded the company 10 years ago and the firm is still standing. Doesn't matter that I was an investment banker in New York and Tokyo who can speak three languages, and the male colleague who left did not have such financial work experience nor linguistic skills.
Your sex does not determine whether or not you can be good at your job, and certainly does not make you more or less credible in court. Go watch the Youtube videos of Shannon Curry vs. lip-smacking David Spiegel in the Johnny Depp trial.
Women should have the right to their bodies, have the right to a career including being investment bankers, hedge fund managers, valuation experts. I'm not a bra-burning feminist and those who know me would have heard that I don't even think we should have Best Female Banker or Hedge Fund Manager or best female whatever if there is no equivalent Male category. I just want to be treated fairly and equally.
It's the clients' loss if they choose not to engage Roula Harfouche as a valuation or damage assessment expert just because she is a woman, especially given her kick-ass analysis in Kiri v Senda.
#womensrights #equalityanddiversity #expertwitness #singapore #valuations #investmentbanking #jpmorgan
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: How some of America's biggest companies are responding
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