Undiversified
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-19588-1 (ISBN)
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.
Ellen Carr has over two decades of experience as a high-yield bond portfolio manager, most recently at Barksdale Investment Management, a majority-women-owned, institutional fixed-income investment management firm. She is also an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School, where she teaches courses on the credit markets and cash flow modeling. She is an occasional contributor to the Financial Times. Katrina Dudley is a global equity portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Investments, one of the world’s largest asset managers. She is the author of the introduction to the Vault Career Guide to Mutual Funds (2016). She is a frequent market commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg, a mentor to up-and-coming female investment professionals, and a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School.
Prologue
Part I. The Industry, the Jobs, and the Gender Imbalance
1. An Overview of the Active Investment Management Industry
2. What Is a Portfolio Manager, and Why Would Anyone Want to Become One?
3. Representation of Women in Investment Management
Part II. Diagnosis of IM’s Gender Imbalance
4. Why Don’t Women Choose Investing Careers? The Undergraduate Pipeline
5. Why Don’t Women Choose Investing Careers? The MBA Pipeline: Columbia Business School as a Case Study
6. Looking Inside Investment Management: Identifying Barriers to Women’s Advancement
7. Your Portfolio Is Balanced—Your Life Can Be, Too! Debunking the Work–Life Balance Myth in IM
8. The Constellation: Discussions with Successful Women in Investment Management
9. How Did We Succeed in Investment Management? Our Different Paths to Successful IM Careers
Part III. Solutions to Investment Management’s Gender Imbalance
10. Solutions: Widening the IM On-Ramp
11. Solutions: Retaining and Promoting Women in IM
12. Solutions: The Role of Allocators
Conclusion: Our Money Management Manifesto
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Organizations Mentioned in This Book
Notes
Glossary
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 figures, 2 tables |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-231-19588-5 / 0231195885 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-19588-1 / 9780231195881 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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