Boston Gender Lens Investing Panel

8/2/2019 Boston Gender Lens Investing Panel

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Women Effect Investments Initiative

Bringing a Gender Lens to Investing


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Agenda

Why Invest in Women?

Social Investing

Gender Lenses

Gender Lens Investing Ecosystem

What Can You Do?

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Agenda


Social Investing

Gender Lenses


What Can You Do?

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Goldman Sachs

World Bank

Nike Foundation

Hillary Clinton

100 Years, 100 Women


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Agenda


Social Investing

Gender Lenses


What Can You Do?

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Global Assets Under Management Socially-Oriented Investments

Socially-OrientedInvestments

Screens: $6.99 T

Philanthropy: $.33 T

Impact Investing $.5 T

Impact Investing: Magnitude

$50 T

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Social Investing

Social investments seek to generate both financial returns for investors and social

returns that benefit broader society

SocialReturns

FinancialReturns

Low

High

High

Philanthropists:Maximizing social returns

Social Investors:Blended Value Social and financialreturns

Investors:Maximizing profit

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ActiveOwnershipStrategies

Screening GuaranteesImpact First

Investments

FinancialFirst

Investments

Source: Godeke and Pomares, Solutions for Impact Investors, RockefellerPhilanthropy Advisors, 2009.

Impact Investing: Tools & Tactics


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Agenda


Social Investing

Gender Lenses


What Can You Do?

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Women Effect Investments (WEI)

Women Effect Investments is a field-building initiative that seeks to mobilize more

investment dollars toward improving the condition ofwomen and girls worldwide

Mobilizing women investors and

investment capital towards generating the

Women Effect through investment

Strengthening and creating new

investment opportunities with a gender

lens across a diverse set of financial

intermediaries (funds and other vehicles)

When women are economic agents and leaders, social change accelerates and returns

multiply This is the WOMEN EFFECT

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3 Gender Lenses

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Access to

CapitalWorkplaceEquity

Products

& Services

A gender lens serves as a viewfinder for investment opportunities

both fromimpact and financial return perspectives


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Workplace Equity

Workplace

Equity


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Products & Services

Products

& Services


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Access to Capital

Access to Capital
http://www.goldenseeds.com/home/


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Agenda


Social Investing

Gender Lenses


What Can You Do?

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The GENDER & INVESTING ECOSYSTEM

A growing number of investors, funds and support organizations are recognizing

the importance and potential of a gender lens

Investment Vehicles Investor Groups

Supporting Networks Supporting Organizations
http://www.goldenseeds.com/home/http://www.85broads.com/http://www.womensfundingnetwork.org/http://www.goldenseeds.com/home/


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Emerging Vehicles


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Agenda


Social Investing

Gender Lenses


What Can You Do?

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What Can YOU Do?VOICE:The questions you ask

Make some noise

Advocacy

#GenderLensInv

LEARNING:Gender Lens Investing Forum

Ecosystem Calls


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What Else Can You Do?

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Beyond investing,

Beyond educating yourself and others,

There are lots of ways to support building this field

And they wont happen with out philanthropy.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Women entrepreneurs

training, incubation,

mentorship

Support social entrepreneurs to

get capital-ready


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Beyond investing,Beyond educating yourself and others,



Research

Due diligence around fund design Field/pipeline mapping

Technology for women entrepreneurs research


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Beyond investing,




Community/Education

Case studies

Events for ecosystem players

investors, intermediaries,

entrepreneurs


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Beyond investing,




THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

Cultivate the opportunity for more gender lens investing vehicles Mobilizewomen investors and investment capital to invest with a gender lens

Women Effect Investments



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Women Effect Investments Initiative


Boston Gender Lens Investing Panel

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