#91: Gender lens investing: an update with Angela Atherton
Angela Atherton (CFA, FRM) is the Co-founder and Principal of Parallelle Finance. Her commitment to financial inclusion and impact investing began at the start of her career when she managed screening and performance analysis for two ESG indexes. She structured private equity deals at American Capital Strategies. She led risk analysis and management functions at Fannie Mae and Calvert Impact Capital, a non-profit investment firm. As the Chief Operating and Financial Officer at The Global Good Fund, a social enterprise, she ran day-to-day operations and led commercial expansion. Angela is an experienced entrepreneur, she co-founded a female-led fintech, Capital Market Exchange, and launched an independent consulting practice with a global reach, including emerging and developed markets in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. We cover the following in our conversation: An update on gender lens investing since end of 2021 The $1.4trn investment into the Japan focused Gender Diversity Index The launch of the Indxx Equileap's US Women in Technology Index How have gender lens equity funds and fixed income funds performed over this period Are we seeing a change in sentiment towards gender lens investing? ***