Posts Tagged ‘women in leadership’
Gender Lens Investing: Diverse Corporate Leadership Outperforms
Gender lens investing (GLI) is the direction of investment resources toward the achievement of gender equality. Broadly defined, GLI describes investment funds and portfolios in private and public capital markets segments. A breadth of studies spanning two decades has repeatedly shown connections between higher levels of women in leadership (WIL) and superior financial and operational…
Read MoreWomen in Financial Services: Global Asset Managers
WIL at the Largest Asset Managers Figure 1 summarizes current WIL metrics for the 25 largest global asset management firms by AUM as of September 30, 2023, representing investment assets of over $73 trillion. Also highlighted are signatory status for selected gender equality and DEI principles, inclusion in gender equality indexes, and whether the firm…
Read MoreQ2 2021 Overview – Gender Lens Investing: Asset Managers and Women in Leadership
Gender lens equity investing developed from a substantive body of research demonstrating the financial, risk management, decision-making, and other corporate benefits of higher levels of women in leadership (WIL). In our coverage universe at Parallelle Finance, 27 gender lens global and regional equity funds are available to individual investors. Their assets under management (AUM) totaled $3.47…
Read MoreEnvironmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Pillars in Gender Lens Investing (GLI)
Gender lens investing (GLI) is seen as a thematic environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment strategy. Within GLI, global and regional gender lens equity funds grew from a wide body of research demonstrating the performance and other benefits of higher women in leadership (WIL). How well do gender lens equity funds reflect an ESG approach?…
Read MoreQ1 2019 Overview – How are gender lens funds performing?
The outperformance of companies with higher women-in-leadership (WIL) metrics has led to the development of so-called gender lens investing. Within this emerging sector, total publicly available equity and fixed income offerings have grown to over $2.4 billion in assets under management (AUM). This paper summarizes the characteristics and recent performance of the publicly-traded equity funds within the sector.
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