Jaclyn Berfond was part of the team who developed and launched the Women’s World Banking gender performance indicators in 2011, and is now responsible for developing the indicators to measure performance of new products and markets. She shares some pertinent findings and challenges around data measurement with Women Effect.
Donna Katzin is the founder and CEO of Shared Interest, an impact investing firm that works for the economic empowerment of Southern African communities. She talks to Women Effect about her gender lens investing journey.
We interview founder and CEO of The Runway Project, Jessica Norwood, about using capital to transform communities in the Southern States and beyond
Andrea Turner Moffitt is a leading authority on understanding women as investors. She speaks to Women Effect about her extensive research, recent trends and opportunities in the space, and how she is harnessing these as co-founder of Plum Valley investments.
As the first year of the Rising Tide angel investing program draws to a close, we speak to founder Alicia Robb about the investment gender gap and how Rising Tide’s hands-on angel training hopes to get women actively moving capital around the globe over the long term
Data reveals opportunities and paths yet unseen, so we spend a lot of time thinking about it: how to measure, map and analyse more effectively across asset classes and investment themes. The data from our municipal bond ratings tell a particularly interesting gender story.
We focus on a social enterprise with an implicit gender lens, and two of the investors about their experience and decision making process in this and other gender lens investments.
A round-up of research on maternal health worldwide for investors with an interest in this area
news archive: Elsewhere on the Web
2015
Women on Boards: Global Trends In Gender Diversity (MSCI)
Why Investing in Women Pays Off (Green Money Journal)
The Power of the Purse: The Five Ps for Shifting Finance to Help Women and Girls (Impact Alpha)
Expert View: Women's Economic Empowerment (Inclusion Hub)
Investments aren't gender-neutral when female entrepreneurs face a $320bn credit gap (The Guardian)
Startups founded by women are doing way better than ones founded by men, says top firm First Round Capital (UK Business Insider)
Engendering Social Change: Gender Lens Investing Helps All (The Ticker Tape)
10 Dos and Donts of Gender Lens Investing (Calvert Foundation)
2014
Gender equality as an investment concept (Huffington Post)
2013
A billion women are about to transform the global economy (Bloomberg)