Gender diversity in asset management impact reports

📉Less than 13% of fund managers globally are women. That’s the headline from Citywire’s 10th Alpha Female Report. Yes, it’s up from 10% a decade ago. Yes, assets run by women have nearly tripled to €4.7tn. But progress is still painfully slow. 🔑 Key takeaways: - Assets managed by women are up 3x — but largely thanks to mixed-gender teams. - Representation has barely shifted: 10.3% ➡️ 12.9%. - Spain leads with 22% female managers, Germany trails at just 7%. - Turnover is higher for women (44% vs 30% for men). The opportunity gap is widening: only 3% of new fund launches went to sole female managers this year (down from 5% in 2024). None to all-female teams. ⚖️ Why this matters: Performance: Diverse teams = stronger, more stable results. Representation: Women control a rising share of global wealth, yet their perspectives are missing in how trillions are invested. Pipeline: More women in these roles = visible paths for the next generation. As Dame Helena Morrissey (chair of the Diversity Project - Investment Industry) put it: “We know that men and women have slightly complementary approaches, including to risk. We complement each other. We think about different needs.” The data proves it: mixed-gender teams deliver lower risk and more stability — better for investors, clients, and the industry. So while the growth in assets is encouraging, the stubbornly low representation tells us one thing: it’s not enough to celebrate progress. We need to build the pipeline, retain talent, and change the culture of fund management. 💡 I’m inspired by women driving change like: Puja Jain Jean R. Maxime Carmignac Helen Driver Fong Yee Chan Stephanie Butcher Alexandra Jackson Anne Richards Bhavini ‘Bev’ Shah Amanda Blanc Helena Morrissey Romi Savova Vivi Friedgut Caroline Brady Marine d'Hartoy Gaelle Haag Gillian Hepburn and many many others! 👉 Over to you: what’s one tangible step your firm is taking to bring more women into portfolio management — and keep them there? Full report is available here: https://lnkd.in/emkNHdge #AlphaFemale #AssetManagement #DEI #Leadership

The way capital is deployed shapes our economy and society. Women’s economic empowerment can significantly boost growth. Deployment of financial resources is key to ensuring women’s economic empowerment. Financial resources determine which priorities are addressed, what solutions reach scale, and when ideas go unexplored. Still, these resources are not evenly distributed. 👉 Less than 1.3% of the $69.1 trillion in global financial assets under management are managed by women and people of colour. 👉 Barely 2% of venture capital goes to women-led startups globally, If women and men had equal levels of entrepreneurship, global GDP could rise by 3% to 6%, boosting the world economy by $2.5–$5 trillion. As a G7 advisor and member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council, I participated in presenting our report on women’s economic empowerment at an international seminar in Tokyo. One vital recommendation is to encourage gender-smart investment in the private sector and provide women entrepreneurs with equal access to private funding. 👉 We recommend creating a fund of funds and back multistakeholder initiatives to provide catalytic anchor investment in women-led funds.  👉 We also recommend gender-smart investing strategies to build the market and mobilise private capital. In the report we give example the spearheading work done by 2X Global, a global industry body for gender finance. The 2X Investment Criteria set global standards for gender-smart finance that have been adopted by a wide spectrum of capital providers. Thank you to Hedwige Nuyens and Anda Sapardan for excellent cooperation in writing the section on economic empowerment, and to Jessica Espinoza and Jen Braswell from 2X Global for very valuable contributions as well as European Women in VC. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eq_gfGrN The full GEAC report is available at:  https://lnkd.in/eCUhCwrN

The Kings of Capital confirm it: there is money in gender-balance. Blackrock the worlds biggest money manager recently did a study on the impact of gender diversity on financial performance. Conclusion? more gender-balanced workforces outperformed their least-balanced peers by as much as 2 percentage points annually between 2013 and 2022. This result of one of the biggest studies ever in this space align with earlier studies for instance by McKinsey that linked gender diversity to above-average profitability. Blackrock found that the higher return on assets held true within countries and within sectors, and was especially marked for companies where gender parity was greatest in revenue producing, engineering and top-paying jobs. Companies in the middle quintile for gender balance reported an average annual return on assets of 7.7 per cent, compared with 5.6 per cent for those with the highest share of men in their workforce and 6.1 per cent for those with the highest share of women, the study found. In other words companies with workforces that are balanced between women and men achieve the best results. This study will strengthen the case of investment firms to consider gender representation and other social factors in the investment process.