Frameworks and Tools for Investors in Public Markets/Pension Funds
The following reports, frameworks, articles, and other resources are meant to enable investors in public markets to better identify the connections between GBV and their own investment approaches and processes. The resources range from research about related topics to examples of peer activities to tools for implementation. We will continue to augment this list as the field of actors and activities evolves.
Approaches for Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence: Thematic Strategies
This excerpt from Criterion and Tiedemann Advisors’ Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence looks at how investors in private markets who aim to generate positive impact while also generating market-rate returns can integrate a GBV lens into investments in other themes.
Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in the Private Sector
This report by the International Finance Corporation provides an overview of the business case for addressing GBV in private-sector companies.
The GBV Risk Score tool, developed by Equilo, Criterion, and UNICEF, enables project planners and investors to prepare to address GBV in their work from the start. It provides extensive, easy to understand GBV risk data and analysis by country and sector across nearly 200 gender equality domains and includes automated action planning so that analysis can more easily be turned into action.
National Australia Bank NAB Assist Case Study
This case study looks at how an Australian bank instituted a program related to supporting clients who were experiencing family violence. In addition to unlocking social value for customers, the bank saved over $70M in its first year.
Approaches for Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence: Catalytic Strategies
This excerpt from Criterion and Tiedemann Advisors’ Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence looks at how investors in private markets who are willing to apply patient, flexible, risk-tolerant capital can pursue positive GBV outcomes.
Mitigating the Risks of Gender-Based Violence: A Due Diligence Guide for Investing
This tool enables investors to identify and mitigate the risks of GBV as part of their standard due diligence processes. It highlights post-Covid patterns of violence and response.
Gender-Based Violence: A Hidden Indicator of Political Risk
This article outlines an approach for how investors can incorporate data about gender-based violence to better assess potential political instability in different markets.
Glossary
This refers to anything that has economic value.
Groupings of investments that exhibit some similar characteristics and are generally subject to the same regulations. Examples include equity (i.e., owning a portion of a company), commodities (basic goods, such as agricultural products, that can be transformed into other goods or services), and real estate.
A socially constructed category related to norms and expectations of people with different sex characteristics.
A person's internal understanding and experience of their own gender.
Incorporating a gender analysis into financial analysis in order to get to better outcomes.
The gender binary (male-female) influences what societies and cultures consider “normal” or acceptable. These relate to expectations regarding the behaviors, dress, appearance, and roles of women and men. Gender norms continue to dictate that anyone variant from what is deemed acceptable will experience discrimination and oppression at an individual and systemic level. Gender norms can contribute to power imbalances and gender inequality in the home, workplace, markets, and in society as a whole.
Any act of violence, that causes physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to someone based on their gender. This definition encompasses all forms of violence that women and gender-diverse people experience (including physical, sexual, financial, emotional, and cultural violence). Gender-based violence is a violation of human rights and a life-threatening health and protection issue. It includes acts of violence, sexual harassment, and threats of harm or coercion in public or in private life, including in homes, workplaces, social contexts, on the street, in schools, or online by perpetrators either known or unknown to the victim-survivor.
Investments made with the intention of generating positive social and/or environmental return alongside financial returns.
Coined by the American law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, this term signifies a lens through which to analyze how oppressions along multiple vectors – race, gender, class, sexuality, and more – interact to affect an individual's experience. This approach calls for analyzing oppression through a multitude of social, cultural, biological, and geopolitical factors.
This acronym stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer, and the ‘+' signals inclusion of further identities and experiences not named in the acronym. Certain Global South scholars have argued that the acronym potentially imposes limits on identification not reflective of dynamic identities and experiences.
This term refers to any factor that is deemed relevant in terms of affecting a company’s performance.
People whose gender identity does not conform to a male-female binary.
An investment opportunity refers to a situation in which one can place money into an asset that has a chance to gain value in the future.
The collection of assets owned by an investor or fund, often comprising of multiple asset classes.
In the context of sociology and political science, this is defined as the capacity of an individual to lead, dominate, or otherwise influence the actions, beliefs, or behavior of others.
The chance that an investment's gains will differ from an expected outcome or return. In general, investment risks fall into two broad categories:
- Market risk: Risks that affect part or all of an economic market in which an investment is made. Examples include political risk, inflation risk, and currency risk.
- Unsystematic risk: Risk that affects a specific company or sector, such as changes in management, policies, or practices that affect employee performance, or new competition for a product or service.
This acronym stands for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (the shorter SOGIE is also used). While not as widely popularized as the LGBTIQ+ acronym, some scholars argue that it is more representative of how gender and sexual identities are formed in different global contexts.
The physical characteristics with which a person is born, such as anatomy and chromosomes.
How people experience sexual and romantic attraction, including sexual orientation.
The process of predicting a company or other asset’s future value based on analyzing its current assets, potential for growth, and possible risks.