Article: Society hires industry star to rev up its funds. (Society Corp., Mary K. Stern)

Cleveland-based Society Corp. has set an ambitious goal for its proprietary mutual funds: $10 billion in assets by 1997.

Just how does the bank plan to get there? Chief financial officer James K. Wert has a simple answer: "There she is."

She is Mary K. Stern. Called Mary K. around the bank, Ms. Stern is drawing up a blueprint for an aggressive push in investment products.

In addition to training hundreds of brokers, Ms. Stern is developing new financial planning and asset allocation tools to help baby boomers and other customers plan for the future.

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