Seattle Post Intelligencer – Leslie Rahl has been running a hedge fund advisory firm for a dozen years, after a long career running the derivatives desk at Citibank.<\/p>\n
A typical day might be spent meeting with clients from Japan and Norway, but one recent afternoon she was accompanying Dasharah Green, a fifth-grader from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
“What do you do?” asked Dasharah, who is 10 and wants to be a pediatrician, while waiting to tour the NBC studios in midtown Manhattan with some classmates and an equal number of high-powered women.<\/p>\n
“I actually run my own company,” said Rahl, who is 55 and wore an electric blue coat with fur trim.<\/p>\n
“What is it about?” Dasharah asked.<\/p>\n
The hedge fund business is about many things, but it is mainly about men. Women manage money at just a tiny fraction of the nearly 9,000 hedge funds, the lightly regulated partnerships that invest in everything from stocks to exotic derivatives.<\/p>\n