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The Missing Billions: Analyzing the Impact of Women-Led Fund Managers

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Melanie Schwartz

Associate Director, Milken Institute Finance
Melanie Schwartz is an associate director with Milken Institute Finance and has a background in African and emerging markets, strategic communications, and international development. Schwartz works within the Institute’s Inclusive Capitalism program and proudly supports the program’s various initiatives designed to progress diversity, equity, and inclusion in the financial sector.
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Maggie Switek, PhD

Senior Director, Research
Maggie Switek, PhD, is a senior director and lead researcher on the Finance team at the Milken Institute, specializing in economic growth, regional development, and labor markets across the US and internationally, and is the main author of the Institute's annual Best-Performing Cities report.

Troy Duffie

Formerly Milken Institute
Topics
Finance
Inclusive Capitalism
Inclusivity and Human Capital
Gender
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In partnership with Recast Capital, The Missing Billions: Analyzing the Impact of Women-Led Financial Managers analyzes the impact of capital deployment from female-led fund managers in venture capital. The report highlights the barriers these fund managers face and outlines tangible next steps to unlock more capital for them. Women are expected to collectively inherit around $30 trillion from the baby boomer generation within the next five years and are projected to control 75 percent of discretionary funding worldwide. If even a fraction of these dollars is invested in women entrepreneurs and other underrepresented minorities, this shift in funding could permanently change the financial services industry.
 

Nathan Jefferson, senior associate, Research, provided valuable research assistance for this report.

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