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 US-based Parallelle Finance, 27 gender-lens global and regional equity funds are available to individual investors.

Their assets under management (AUM) totalled US$3.47 billion as of Jun 30, 2021, reflecting a growth rate of 32 per cent in the first half of 2021.