Presentation Offers Insights at UBS Women’s Symposium

Joyce Storm leads the NY based real estate acquisition and development firm Storm Partners, LLC. For three decades, she has been singled out as one of few female retail real estate development executives in a male dominated industry. On March 21, 2019, Joyce Storm spoke at the UBS Women’s Symposium, held at Park Hyatt New York and sponsored by one of the world’s largest international investment -banking and financial-services firms: Union Bank of Switzerland. 

Her presentation Perspectives from Women of Impact, Redefining Legacy aligned with the opening address from UBS leadership, noting the company’s commitment to partnering with successful women to help them fulfill the full range of their ambitions for themselves, their families, and philanthropy. 

Ms. Storm encouraged fellow attendees to work strategically with male executives to help diversify boardrooms by opening top-level positions to more women leaders.

Studies show that women still hold only a small portion of the major positions at leading American corporations. Data from a Pew Research Center analysis of company federal securities filings among Standard & Poor’s Composite 1500 stock index, place the percentage of the country’s women CEOs at a 5.1% and the percentage of female top executives as still only 11.5%. 

On its website, the company cites a recent study showing that while 56% of men surveyed said they were financially confident, only 41% of the women reported similar feelings. Yet when women direct their investments, they tend to concentrate not only on their own needs, but on socially-responsible investing and the promotion of the greater good in their communities. UBS offers a self-administered financial goal survey and online resources designed to help women increase their financial confidence. 

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