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Diversification is a core principle of investing. Yet money managers have not applied it to their own ranks. Only around 10 percent of portfolio managers—the people most directly responsible for investing your money—are female, and the numbers are even worse at the ownership level. What are the causes of this underrepresentation, and what are its consequences—including for firms’ and clients’ bottom lines?In Undiversified, experienced practitioners Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley examine the lack of women in investment management and propose solutions to improve the imbalance. They explore the barriers that subtly but effectively discourage women from entering and staying in the industry at each point in the pipeline. At the entry level, the lack of visible role models discourages students from considering the field, and those who do embark on an investment management career face many obstacles to retention and promotion. Carr and Dudley highlight the importance of informal knowledge about how to navigate career tracks, without which women are left at a disadvantage in an industry that lionizes confidence. They showcase a diverse constellation of successful female portfolio managers to demystify the profession.Drawing on wide-ranging research, interviews with prospective, current, and former industry practitioners, and the authors’ own experiences, Undiversified makes a compelling case that increasing the number of women could help transform active investment management at a time when it is under threat from passive strategies and technological innovation.

Investment advisors. --- Portfolio managers. --- Women in finance. --- Portfolio management --- Financial services industry --- Sex discrimination in employment. --- Social aspects. --- Vocational guidance.

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"Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but she outraged critics with her rejection of domesticity. Progressives like Victoria Woodhull, meanwhile, saw financial acumen as more important for women than the vote. George Robb's pioneering study sheds a light on the financial methods, accomplishments, and careers of three generations of women. Plumbing sources from stock brokers' ledgers to media coverage, Robb reveals the many ways women invested their capital while exploring their differing sources of information, approaches to finance, interactions with markets, and levels of expertise. He also rediscovers the forgotten women bankers, brokers, and speculators who blazed new trails--and sparked public outcries over women's unsuitability for the predatory rough-and-tumble of market capitalism. Entertaining and vivid with details, Ladies of the Ticker sheds light on the trailblazers who transformed Wall Street into a place for women's work."--

Finance --- Women capitalists and financiers --- Women in finance --- Businesswomen --- Capitalists and financiers --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Community organization --- Private finance --- Woodhull, Victoria --- Green, Hetty --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America --- Finances --- Capitalism --- Participation --- Banking sector --- Book

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Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world's poor. In this book, Caroline Schuster explores Paraguayan solidarity lending as a window into the tensions between social development and global finance.Social Collateral tracks collective debt across the commercial society and smuggling economies at the Paraguayan border by examining group loans made to women by nonprofit development programs. These highly regulated loans are secured through mutual support and peer pressure-social collateral-rather than through physical collateral. This story of social collateral necessarily includes an interwoven account about the feminization of solidarity lending. At its core is an economy of gender-from pink-collar financial work, to men's committees, to women smugglers. At stake are interdependencies that bind borrowers and lenders, financial technologies, and Paraguayan development in ways that structure both global inequality and global opportunity.

Smuggling --- Women-owned business enterprises --- Businesswomen --- Microfinance --- Entrepreneurs, Women --- Women entrepreneurs --- Women in business --- Businesspeople --- Micro-finance --- Microcredit --- Microenterprise lending --- Microlending --- Financial services industry --- Small business --- Contraband trade --- Crime --- Customs administration --- Business enterprises --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Finance --- E-books --- borrowing and lending. --- business and finance in paraguay. --- economics in paraguay. --- female entrepreneurs. --- feminist business. --- feminization of business. --- feminization of finance. --- feminization of lending. --- financial technology. --- gender studies. --- group loans for women. --- microcredit. --- microfinance. --- microloans. --- pink collar finance. --- small loans. --- social collateral. --- south american commerce. --- woman owned business. --- women in business. --- women in finance. --- women smugglers.