Women In Private Funds

Our new programme spotlights women whose achievements, innovation and leadership are reshaping private markets across a broad range of asset classes.

In a notoriously male-dominated industry, progress on increasing gender diversity is a slow-moving beast.

Opportunities for women in the private funds industry have never been greater, but there is still a way to go, writes Gill Wadsworth.

Given their more limited ability to influence DE&I at the asset level, private debt managers initially faced less scrutiny on the issue from LPs. That is now beginning to change.