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Teaching Teen Girls Money Management
April 4, 2011
UC Irvine Online Feature
In launching the Financial Literacy Summer Residential Program, Mark Moehlman — founding chair of UCI’s Center for Investment & Wealth Management — is fulfilling a long-ago pledge to his mother. Photo by Steve Zulius / University Communications
He was a teenager when his father died. His 48-year-old mother was left to raise three children and manage the family finances on her own. With no experience handling money, she found the latter task especially daunting and made her son pledge that if he could ever influence women’s education, he’d try to ensure their financial literacy.
Mark Moehlman, a principal at Wealth Management Network and founding chair of the Center for Investment & Wealth Management at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, kept his promise.
He brought up a daughter who today is a successful financier and director of a New York City hedge fund. And this summer — with the help of interim CIWM executive director Melissa Beck, charter CIWM members and volunteers — Moehlman will launch the Financial Literacy Summer Residential Program at UCI.
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