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Gender Lens Investing

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Q1 2021 Overview – Viewing Technology Stocks through a Gender Lens

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Ample research demonstrates that companies with higher levels of women in leadership (WIL) report superior performance on a range of metrics. Founded on WIL and other gender equity criteria, the 29 gender lens equity funds (GLEFs) available to individual investors include 13 global equity funds and 16 regional equity offerings. As of 31 March 2021, AUM for the GLEF group is $3.28 billion.

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Q1 2021 Review

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Gender Lens Investing Q1 2021 Review examines the first quarter 2021 performance and composition of gender lens equity funds, launches coverage of diversity & inclusion equity funds, offers an overview of gender lens fixed income vehicles and explores the dynamics shaping publicly available gender lens investing.

With a special topic: Gender Lens + ESG Investment Criteria.

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Q4 2020 Overview – A Call to Action: Aligning Gender Lens Investing and ESG

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Gender lens investing (GLI) is a thematic environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy that is inspired by women in leadership (WIL) and related gender equality criteria.

The primary publicly traded GLI equity funds available to individual investors include 12 global and 16 regional funds that together closed out 2020 with US$2.67 billion in assets under management (AUM). As a whole, they weathered the year’s economic storms well, with only one fund closing and three new ones launching.

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Q3 2020 Overview – Gender Lens Funds: Ups and Downs for Women in the Workforce

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The third quarter was an eventful one for gender lens investing as well as women in leadership (WIL) in the financial sector and elsewhere.

Gender lens equity funds turned in modest positive returns, a trajectory in line with the broader market. This suite of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which developed in response to evidence that companies with higher WIL metric generate superior financial and stock price performance, includes 23 primary gender lens equity funds that are available to individual investors. Of these, nine are global and 14 are regional.

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