As we open the GenderSmart Investing Summit 2022 today, Suzanne Biegel reflects on the key actions needed to move the field forward and shift the needle in both numbers and impact. What do we most need to do to move more capital with more velocity and to greater effect?

Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an innovative finance advisory firm and a university lecturer on Innovative Finance, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact. She is also the author of Adventure Finance: How to Create a Funding Journey that Blends Profit and Purpose, and is starting a new book about alternative funding structures. We spoke to her about the most impactful lever and strategies for getting more capital flowing to women (and especially women of colour) - and how traditional structures can fall short.

We had a conversation with Ingrid Leong, CIO for the Houssian Foundation, asking her to look back on her experience aligning the Foundation’s investment strategy with gender lens investing and creating a fully mission-aligned investment portfolio. She offered her honest reflections and advice for those starting out on this journey.

First-time women-led funds present an untapped source of alpha and impact. GenderSmart’s First Time Women Led and Diverse Funds Initiative offers an overview of why and how you should be investing in these funds as an opportunity to contribute to the promotion of gender equality on a deeper and wider scale.