Barbara Stewart, CFA; is a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Cumberland Private Wealth Management, where she works with high net worth investors, both individuals and families. Barbara is also a researcher and writer on issues around women and financial literacy, and published the fifth installment of her Rich Thinking series on International Women’s Day in March, 2015.

As part of her work on issues of interest to women, Barbara has a bi-weekly newspaper column on women and money in over 30 newspapers across Canada, reaching over 2 million Canadians in all major markets. She is the Money contributor and columnist for Mrs. R online magazine, whose primary audience is successful women over 40 worldwide. Barbara is a frequent interview guest on TV, radio and print, both financial and general interest. Finally, she is a sought after keynote speaker at global events relating to women, money and financial literacy, and has participated in events in Istanbul, Toronto, Helsinki, Stockholm, Reykjavik, Paris and Singapore; to both broader conferences and at corporate functions.