Shinsei Bank was the first Japanese Banking Group to launch an impact investing fund, and now has two funds focused on investments into businesses tackling the life challenges that are faced by the working population, including childcare, elder care, healthcare, work-life balance and work-style innovations. We spoke to Chunmei Huang and Sayaka Takatsuka, Managing Director and Senior Director on the Impact Investment Team of Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited in the Shinsei Bank Group, about their approach and growing the Japanese impact investing ecosystem.

Seema Hingorani has been CIO of the New York City Retirement Systems, founded nonprofit Girls Who Invest and investment firm SevenStep Capital to address the diversity gap in investment management, and nearly two years ago joined Morgan Stanley Investment Management as a Managing Director on the senior leadership team. She speaks to GenderSmart about the evolution of her gender-focused investing approach and finding investment talent in surprising places.

Prejudice benefits no one. But just how harmful is it to societies worldwide? And what are the economic arguments for overcoming it? Paul Donovan, Chief Economist at UBS – and author of "Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" – explains the facts and fictions of discrimination.

Mara Harvey is the Head of Client Services, Global Wealth Management at UBS, where she founded and led a global program to better serve female clients and build the organisation’s capacity for gender-smart investment. She spoke to GenderSmart about what it takes to bring about real transformation within a large organisation, better data, and why unlocking women’s wealth is critical to the success of any financial institution.

Marisa Drew is the Chief Sustainability Officer & Global Head Sustainability Strategy, Advisory and Finance at Credit Suisse. She draws on a 30-year career in investment banking to reflect on key learnings around organisational bias, and the role of ESG in scaling institutional capital.