Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment Management

by Katrina Dudley and Ellen Carr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231195885
• ISBN13: 9780231195881
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"