2016 Recap: Notable Gender Lens Investing Resources

The resources below, represent a collection of notable resources on gender lens investing published in 2016.

Jackie VanderBrug wrote the book, Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact. During the eight years Jackie spent working at Criterion she played a vital role in our gender lens investing program and continues to be one of the most well-known voices in the field.

Notable articles include:

Past Present and Future of Gender Lens Investing – True Wealth VC
The Business of Women – Financial Times
Sustainable Investments Surged by Third to $8.7 Trillion in 2016 – Bloomberg
Why The Founders Of Allbright Invest 100% Of Its Funds In Women Entrepreneurs – Forbes
Investing in Inclusion: Women, Peace, and Development in Africa – ReliefWeb
Culture of Peace: Peace — A wise investment – World Bank Group
Analyzing Stocks Against Environmental, Social and Governance Risks – Jakarta Post
The Gender Agenda – FA
Economic Benefits of Investing in Women’s Health: A Systematic Review – Onarheim, et al.
Research: The Gender Gap in Startup Success Disappears When Women Fund Women. Harvard Business Review, July. Raina, Sahil.
The Public Equities Scan from Veris Wealth Partners
Fast Forward by Melanne Verveer and Kim Azzarelli
The World Bank’s Little Book on Gender

Helpful articles about gender lens investing in Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)

With an Eye to Impact, Investing through a Gender Lens (New York Times)

Policy Frameworks to Support Women’s Financial Inclusion. AFI and Women’s World Banking
Putting Gender Diversity to Work: Better Fundamentals, Less Volatility. Morgan Stanley
On the Road to Parity: Gender Lens Investing. UBS
The Sky’s the Limit: Increasing Social Investment Impact with a Gender Lens.Young Foundation
Delivering the Power of Parity: Toward a More Gender-Equal Society – McKinsey & Company
Veris Wealth Partners published a report entitled Women-Wealth-and-Impact it outlines strategies for shifting the flow of wealth and power to women.
Trillium Asset Management published a report entitled Investing for Positive Impact on Women that is meant to be framework for investors to maximize theirsocial and environmental impact across their portfolios.
Investing to Advance Women: A Guide for Individual & Institutional Investors was published by the US SIF Foundation. This guide highlights investment vehicles and strategies, including shareholder engagement, in which investors can participate to increase economic opportunities for women in the United States and around the world. The guide reviews options across a rang of asset classes and vehicles, including stocks, mutual funds, fixed income and cash instruments.
Taking Steps to Advance Diversity & Inclusion in the Sustainable and Responsible Investment Industry is a toolkit published by the US SIF Foundation.
Diversity website – This website provides resources that include guidelines and references on how to build a diverse workforce and corporate culture, including presentations, articles, job boards and organizations.

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