Seema R. Hingorani
“The research is clear and conclusive: More gender diverse teams get better outcomes. Yet in the asset management industry in particular, less than 5 percent of the world’s investable capital is managed by women, and the number of women portfolio managers at the world’s mutual fund companies, private equity firms and hedge funds is startling low at 15 percent, 6 percent and 3 percent, respectively.“
How to do better: “In 2015 I founded an organization called Girls Who Invest to create a pipeline of young female talent and prepare them to succeed in the asset management industry. The pipeline is certainly a problem. And men and women in our business need to have an open dialogue about how to evolve firm cultures so that once women are in, they are welcomed and set up to thrive. Men and women need to partner to change the workplace.”
—Seema R. Hingorani is founder and chair of Girls Who Invest, a nonprofit with the mission to have 30 percent of the world’s investable capital managed by women by 2030. girlswhoinvest.org
