Women in reinsurance


PrOFILE Name:


Alice Schroeder


Company: Prudential Plc Job:


Independent board member and audit committee member


Timeline: 2013—Prudential Plc


2008—Author, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life 2003—Senior adviser, Morgan Stanley


Alice Schroeder is an independent board member of Prudential Plc and Cetera Financial Group and an independent director of Webtuner Corp. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, WomenCorporateDirectors and a board member of The Committee of 200 Foundation.


Schroeder began her career as a qualified accountant at Ernst


& Young in 1980 where she worked for 11 years before leaving to join the Financial Accounting Standards Board as a manager. From September 1993 she worked as an analyst at Paulsen, Dowling Securities before leading teams of analysts specialising in property-casualty insurance, first as a managing director of Oppenheimer & Co and then at PaineWebber & Co.


In June 2000 she joined Morgan Stanley, becoming a managing


director in 2001 heading the Global Insurance Equity Research team. She was ranked as a member of the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team for seven years and named the number one property-casualty insurance analyst two years in a row.


In May 2003 Schroeder became a senior adviser at Morgan Stanley, leaving in November 2009. She is a highly respected analyst and author of the official biography of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, The Snowball. The biography was published in September 2008 and debuted at number on1 on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly lists of nonfiction best-sellers.


“She is a highly respected analyst and author of the official biography of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, The snowball.”


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