Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities For Growth, Returns, And Impact
By Jackie VanderBrug, Managing Director and Joseph Quinlan. Women today are an unparalleled force in the global economy as successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and family breadwinners. Yet gender-based violence, the absence of women's legal rights and the persistent wage gap stubbornly remain. This paradox creates an unprecedented and underexplored opportunity for investors.
Gender Lens Investing, co-authored by Jackie VanderBrug, Managing Director and Joseph Quinlan, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, is the first book of its kind to examine, in-depth the advantages of integrating gender into investment analysis.
Gender Lens Investing: How Finance Can Accelerate Gender Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
From IDB Invest and ESADE. Globally gender lens investing has grown exponentially as a way to increase financial returns and gender equality. What is this trend about? What can Latin America and the Caribbean learn from it?
At current rates of progress, it will take 74 years to achieve gender parity in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap report. This paper includes:
the experience of the US, Europe and other countries in channelling over $2.2B in gender lens investing
gaps and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean to attract international investors
success stories from Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Brazil
Gender Lens Investing: Impact Opportunities Through Gender Equity
From Cambridge Associates. In this brief paper, Cambridge Associates present: a review of gender equality and its impact on economic growth; a case for gender lens investing as an alpha engine; an overview of gender lens investing; and an outline of opportunities for investment. With a gender lens framework, investors can positively impact gender imbalances via their portfolio management choices; this paper provides tangible investment themes and implementable strategies.
Moving Towards Gender Balance in Private Equity and Venture Capital
From IFC. This study explores the link between financial returns and gender diversity; the lack of women in the industry; and steps needed to achieve gender balance. One of the key findings of the report is that private equity and venture capital funds with gender-balanced senior investment teams generated 10 percent to 20 percent higher returns compared with funds that have a majority of male or female leaders.
Four For Women: A Framework for Evaluating Evaluating Companies’ Impact on the Women They Employ
From Wharton Social Impact Initiative. This framework by Vice Dean Katherine Klein, Wharton doctoral candidate Shoshana Schwartz, and WSII Senior Director Sandi M. Hunt promises to change the conversation about what it means to be a good employer for women. Highlighting critical outcomes for women – and possible metrics to use to assess these outcomes – they set a new standard for employer excellence. And it is about employer excellence (not just excellence for women) because companies that are good for women are good for men, too. It’s not a zero sum game.