Financial research ( http://mymoneymd.com/Newsletter07312007.pdf ) demonstrates that women are at least as good, if not better investors than men. Further, scientific studies show that their skills come naturally –from their inherent neurobiology. This information throws out Ms. Orman’s idea—that women are brainless money managers. Instead, it embraces women’s intrinsic abilities and shows women that they have built in traits that make them excellent investors. This gives women a positive, rather than a negative springboard from which to invest.
Additionally, there is a scientific way to invest not utilized by Ms. Orman. The concept that asset allocation is the most important factor when investing money won the Nobel Prize in 1990. By its very definition, this term means a mix of stocks, bonds and cash. Orman throws out this award winning scientific concept and invests only in zero coupon bonds for herself (New York Times Magazine 2 25 07). Debra Neiman, a certified financial planner at Neiman & Associates Financial Services in Boston (interview with Chuck Jaffe, writer for Investor.com) says this of Orman: “Suze is investing as if she was a retired grandmother with no heirs.” This ultra conservative approach is evident in her book and needs to be corrected. If women were to invest according to her recommendations, they are much less likely to have the monies they need as they age.
Women need to break Suze Orman’s hold and invest scientifically in a way that historically gleans far better results than investing too conservatively (such as in bonds alone). This approach works just as well for male investors.
In summary, women need a fresh positive perspective in investment management; one that is scientifically based, and corrects previous misconceptions. This approach is vitally important today when women’s untapped investing potential is far behind their other recent achievements.
Suze Orman is Wrong - To learn more about this author, visit Shirley Mueller's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
 |
Related Articles |
|
 Suze Orman is Wrong
|
| |
Suze Orman is wrong and I want to correct her folly. In her recent book, Women and Money, Orman starts from the premise that women are less than smart when it comes to managing money. By inference, this concept exte...
|
|
It’s All About PR
|
| |
You learn that, in the book world, PR is everything. When you walk into a bookstore, you are walking into a treasure house of 140,000 books. Online at amazon.com, there are 2.5 million books. Somewhere in your mi...
|
|
Decision Making Processes Doing the Best You Can
|
| |
Ever been frustrated by someone who made a decision that seemed to be the wrong decision?
|
|
Exploring the Sharing of Three Words
|
| |
“I am sorry.” There are so many lessons to be learned about how to say these simple and very powerful words.
|
|
Are You Writing Your Book for the Wrong Reasons?
|
| |
Have you been struggling to finish your book? If you’ve been working on the project for what seems like forever, and made little or no progress, you might need to reconsider your motive for taking on the project in ...
|
 |
Related Businesses - Evan Elite Authors |
|
The Evan Elite Authors program is currently in beta phase. For details please contact us.
|
|
|
Shirley Mueller
(Visit Shirley's Website)
Shirley M Mueller turned every doctor's
fear - inability to invest his or her hard
earned money wisely - into her greatest
passion. While practicing medicine, she
handled seven family investment accounts.
When she retired from medicine in 1995,
she worked for seven years in the
investment industry. Now, she writes
regularly for Physician's Financial News,
a money management internet publication
directed at doctors. Dr. Mueller also
educates, both one on one and publicly,
about how to effectively self-invest using
a simple and effective three-step
approach. Recently she gave lectures
regarding this topic at Indiana/Purdue
University.
Mueller specializes in client-managed
investment portfolios for which she
provides unbiased information. She is not
associated with a firm for whom she has to
promote a party line. Her fee is hourly,
not a percentage of assets.
|
|
|
|
![[Get Copyright Permissions]](http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif){kind=small}
