When it comes to investing, our relationships shape what investment opportunities we’re exposed to, how we are perceived, who influences our thinking, and how we execute. …

In the gender-smart investing field, all of us are working hard to move capital and shift systems and institutions to work in more equitable ways. But we often don’t have time to stop and think really deeply about what the world we’re working to build looks like. Recently, I sat…

In December, Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Catalyst at Large published Project Sage 4.0, our fourth study of private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds with a gender lens. The growth in funds continues to be significant, with a 3.5 fold increase in the number of funds since we…

Earlier this month, ImpactAlpha published a list of 22 impact markers that investors should be paying attention to in 2022, filed under five broad themes: The Reconstruction in 2022, Impact in Emerging Markets, Climate Finance, Catalytic Capital, and Capitalism Reimagined. ImpactAlpha is always on the leading edge of impact investing…

In December, Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Catalyst at Large published Project Sage 4.0, our fourth study of private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds with a gender lens. There are now 206 total funds in Project Sage, a 3.5 fold increase since we began the study in 2017…

A friend of mine is on the board of a large institutional investor, using her voice around the board table as a champion for gender equality. In her role, she has consistently pushed for ambitious and specific objectives, and recently it paid off: in the form of a concrete commitment…

By Suzanne Biegel and Carey Bohjanen A lot of people we’re talking to are feeling tired right now: from COVID, endless uncertainty, lack of decisive action in the climate talks, or working their hearts out in a seemingly intractable environment. In the gender-smart investing space, we’re starting to move out…

In 2019, at the age of 54, my husband Daniel was diagnosed as autistic. Daniel has been autistic his whole life, but until that point, he had assumed that everyone experienced the world the same way he did: from the intensity of sensory stimuli like sound, to frustrations with communication…

A lot of people assume that investing with a gender lens means investing in the companies that already “get it”: companies with a female founder or strong representation of women in leadership, companies serving women customers or creating products and services that address entrenched gender roles, or companies that are…