Susan L. Hirshman was a managing director at a top global financial institution for most of her career. She holds an M.B.A. from Baruch College and is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Financial Planner, a Chartered Life Underwriter, and a Chartered Financial Analyst. She is the author of Does This Make My Assets Look Fat? and I Want a Fat Asset: How to Achieve Financial Success. She lives in Manhattan.