'Market Clout' tagged blog posts in The latest news from Janet Hanson

85 Broads is creating an investment portfolio made up of companies whose products our members love.   Tell us why you're passionate about a product or brand and we'll purchase shares of that company's stock in our portfolio!  Send your investment suggestions to: info@85broads.com.  At the end of each month, we'll send an update on what companies we own to everyone in the network!   All recommendations will be...

In the summer of 2005, 12 extraordinary women interned with me/85 Broads in Greenwich. Some signed up for two months, some for two weeks.

Our mission that summer: to figure out why young women, for the most part, didn't think investing in the stock market was exciting. We decided to figure out how to make it fun and like most things that work, it was a pretty simple concept...