A call to action: Aligning gender lens investing and ESG
All environmental, social and governance reporting standards ought to be filtered through a gender lens
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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.
Indeed, GLI equity funds performed in line with the broader market. While there are no clear sector winners on gender equality, information technology and financial services are the top two, showed an AUM-weighted allocation analysis, despite their own well-documented gender equity gaps.
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