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Karen Altfest interviewed by Consuelo Mack in podcast on Women & Money
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Karen Altfest is no stranger to financial planning. In Consuelo Mack’s podcast on wealthtrack.com, Karen strikes up a conversation on women and their finances, answering questions like, “How do women plan differently?” and “Do women have alternative financial needs?”
Award-winning financial planner Altfest shares her insights, as well as how she has been helping women financially for over 30 years. As she told Forbes magazine, when named one of its top women wealth advisors, “My focus on women is why I come to work every day.”
The podcast is available to stream on YouTube.
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Karen C. Altfest, CFP, Ph.D
Karen helps many of the firm’s clients on a variety of investment and financial planning issues, and specializes in helping women clients and widows. Karen’s Financially Savvy Woman® programs, including the Women’s Financial $pa®, are popular with clients. Her focus is to educate and empower women.
Karen is frequently a speaker on the subject of women and money, and conducts educational seminars for recent widows and people looking to retire. Karen is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, holds BA and MA degrees from Hunter College, and holds the CFP® designation. Karen received her Ph.D. in history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).
She was the Co-Director of the Financial Planning and Investments Program at The New School in New York City and the Coordinator of the Financial Planning program, a professional program for financial planners, which she originated at Pace University in White Plains, N.Y.
