While all 50 honorees of the 50 Top Women in Wealth for 2011 deserve recognition for their accomplishments and leadership, as we have done each year since the 50 Top Women's inception, we are taking some extra time to look at certain members of the list, this year grouped by the major roles they play in wealth management.
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TAMAR FRANKEL
Boston University Law Professor Tamar Frankel has written and taught on such topics as mutual funds, securitization, financial system regulation and corporate governance, but she is perhaps most revered for her teachings on, and knowledge of, fiduciary law, so much so that the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard recently named its annual fiduciary award after her.
A long-term member of the Boston University School of Law faculty, Frankel was a visiting scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 1995 to 1997, and at the Brookings Institution in 1987. A native of Israel, Frankel served as an attorney in the legal department of the Israeli Air Force, an assistant attorney general for Israel's Ministry of Justice and the legal advisor of the State of Israel Bonds Organization in Europe.
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SALLIE KRAWCHECK
Less than two years ago, Bank of America selected Sallie Krawcheck, a veteran of both Sanford Bernstein and Citigroup, as the new head of its global wealth and investment management group, which had just come to include Merrill Lynch.
"I am excited that Sallie Krawcheck has agreed to join our company," said then-BofA Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis, in an August 2009 press release. "She is acknowledged to be one of the premier executives in the wealth-management industry. Her experience and perspective will lead that business to the next level."
Lewis' statement now seems to have been prescient. When Krawcheck was brought on board, BofA reported that it had 15,008 advisors in its Merrill Lynch and legacy BofA wealth-management operations, down from 15,822 at the end of the first quarter of '09. Total client balances were about $1.8 trillion. Today, assets under management are about $2.2 trillion, and the number of Merrill advisors has expanded by nearly 700.
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