As the face of wealth diversifies, and women investors demand more sustainable options, this session explored the increasing importance of gender-smart investing products and advisors. Participants heard from this powerful and fast-growing investor demographic, and learned about innovative models and approaches that are meeting next-gen wealth holder needs and demands.

This session brought together the voices of the private sector, public policy, and corporate investment to address ecosystem gaps and strategies in one of the hottest emerging investable GLI themes. Participants identified tools, measurement indicators, and ways to integrate investable opportunities into their strategies and portfolios. Integrated both developed and emerging market examples.

A deep dive on Sweef Capital’s Gender ROI™ (Resilience, Opportunity, Inclusion) Tool, which helps to reveal economic inequalities, discrimination and lack of representation women face as entrepreneurs, employees, and consumers.

Whether investors are aiming for good, green jobs as part of a Just Transition, or putting inclusion firmly at the centre of their net zero and green economy strategies, applying a gender and equity lens has the potential to amplify the power of those investments. This session explored how, by integrating diversity into investment design and governance, allocators can promote equitable access to capital and ownership of solutions for the communities that need them most.

Got questions on what a gender smart climate investment really is and on how to promote them in your context? Are you curious about the 2X Green toolkit and looking for entry points to use a gender lens to climate investments or vice versa? This expert session explored ways to accelerate gender smart climate finance.

Getting more capital and support to underserved entrepreneurs and markets is a key goal of gender finance - and a growth opportunity for investors. This session shared best practice case studies and successful models, and identified the data, tools and analysis needed to deploy more capital where it’s needed most.

This session focused on localised approaches for gender lens investing (GLI). Tim Radjy- Founder and Managing Partner of AlphaMundi Group- will talk about his experience on GLI and in the Gender Lens Initiative for Switzerland (GLIS), to enhance the Swiss contribution to SDG5.

According to the Knight Foundation, 98.7% of assets under management in the US are managed by white men. Women and diverse fund managers remain under-resourced and underserved. We explored scalable solutions and innovative approaches to cultivate the next tier of underrepresented fund managers and change the face of capital allocation.

Equileap’s Co-Founder fields questions about the scorecard: how is it unique, what data does it collect, and how? How has Equileap seen data shifting over time, and what are the trends at national and global levels? How is the gender data leveraged by different actors in the financial sector?

The adoption of a dual gender and climate lens in our investments will be crucial if we are to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement by 2050. Across sectors, in both developed and emerging markets, this approach offers amplified impacts and returns. How might we unlock its potential at the pace and scale that’s needed? And what can we learn from our experiences so far, to help investors hit the ground running? This session explored what’s working and what’s not, with a deep dive into the ‘how’ of gender and climate investment.

Got questions about how gender inequity and violence are hidden investment risks? Do you want to think together about risk in specific sectors, markets, and enterprises? We discussed how to go about this analysis, and how to make the case that it matters.

More actors are waking up to gender finance’s potential as a tool for social change. Find out how it can address development gaps, from healthcare and financial inclusion to the future of work. This session will focus on innovative models and structures across blended finance, fund of funds and other structures that integrate gender and equity and mitigate systemic risk.

Got questions on the 2X Criteria and are seeking answers on how to apply them in your context? Are you curious about 2X and looking where to start or levelling up? This expert session helped participants to demystify the 2X criteria.

Gender finance doesn’t just need more data, it needs better analysis - within both gender and finance. This session will go beyond making the case to define what good looks like today. From incorporating intersectionality and the needs of communities rather than capital, how might we translate valuable insights across asset classes, structures and regions?

This climate and gender investing foundations session explored what it means to bring gender and climate together from an investment perspective, and how to make the case for this approach with the available data and case studies.

This 2 hour deep dive provided a grounding in the language, approaches, and vision for gender-smart investing, which is about intentionally incorporating gender based factors into financial analysis to get better outcomes. It was designed for investors and investment intermediaries newer to the field, giving them the confidence and understanding to participate more fully in the remainder of the programme.

Our plenary will take attendees to a place of imagination - a more inclusive, just, resilient 2030 in which gender-smart investing has played a role to leverage finance as a tool for social change. Against this backdrop, three speakers will present a retrospective of the investment strategies and actions that helped get us there.