Return on Equality

In a Joint Report by BNY Mellon and the United Nations Foundation, Return on Equality: Investment Opportunities that Help Close the Global Gender Gap, the authors stress the importance of a products-and-services approach to gender lens investing. The report summarizes the impact of gender on access to products and services and serves as a call-to-action for investors, concluding, “Individual and institutional investors both have a significant market opportunity to realize and a unique goal to play in accelerating the advancement of women and girls.”