In the Pursuit of Equality, Gender Lens Investing Can Help Tip the Scale
This investment strategy can positively affect society--and your portfolio.
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This investment strategy can positively affect society--and your portfolio.
A scan of the funds prioritizing women and climate issues.
These are articles written by professionals for investment professionals. They are contributions from external subject matter experts who do not work for CFA Institute, but may be a CFA charterholder as well as a member of a CFA Society. All are experts in their field and strive to deliver useful insights that help investment professionals make better decisions. Women have been making progress for years, but at a glacial pace. Year after year, I see the same bleak numbers: the more or less stagnant percentages of women in senior management, on boards, in finance, in tech, in investing. Howeve...
How to Begin Considering a Gender Lens Investing Strategy 10 December, 2020 - 19:50 More investment firms are considering how their investment decisions can better support economic and social well-being through gender lens investing (GLI). Firms investing with a gender lens raised $4.8 billion in capital in 2019, according to Wharton Social Impact Initiative’s Project Sage 3.0, more than double the amount raised in 2018. And this growth in GLI follows countless studies showing its manifold benefits, from higher profits and better returns on equity to