Women-Managed Hedge Funds Posting Returns through the Financial Crisis
Women-owned and women-managed hedge funds posted annualized returns through the financial crisis and recovery of +6.0 percent, according to recent Rothstein Kass study released.
Kyria
firm composed solely of women managers, and managing partner Kristina
Koutrakos says that she’s designed the fund to showcase the strength of
female managers.
Research
shows that while women don’t have a biological predisposition to
financial outperformance, they do tend to have a common set of biases
that make them manage money differently from men. These choices, over
the long haul, typically outperform.
However,
the overwhelming amount of investor assets make it to the top five
percent of hedge funds, and those hedge funds are dominated by male
money managers. The reasons for this range from bigger funds, simply
attracting more assets because they are already the biggest, to an
outright open bias against allocating to women who are perceived as weak
or more emotional.
Source: Opalesque
