A major shift in the ownership of wealth is underway. As more private wealth moves into women’s hands, the implications could extend well beyond closing the gender wealth gap.

Women remain less likely to invest than men and enter retirement with significantly less wealth. Yet they also show strong interest in sustainable investing and increasingly want to understand not only what their money earns, but where it goes and what it does.

ellexx, Europe’s largest female finance and investing app, sees this shift first-hand across its community of around 90,000 women.

This raises a bigger question:  What happens to capital markets when more women not only own wealth—but decide where it goes?

This session explores whether closing the gender investment gap could also unlock a significant new pool of impact capital—and what investors, financial institutions and employers need to do to enable that shift.

We’ll open with one provocative data point:  92% of women say sustainable investing matters to them. If the appetite is there, what is stopping more of that intention from becoming invested capital?

We’ll Explore:

• Why women remain underrepresented as investors—and what changes when that gap begins to close.
• What women actually want from their investments, and whether the financial industry is meeting that demand.
• How greater female ownership and investment of wealth could influence sustainable and impact capital.
• Which models—education, community, behavioural design and values-based products—are successfully bringing more women into investing.
• Where investors, pension providers, employers and catalytic capital can help scale the ecosystem.

Speakers:

Patrizia Laeri — CEO & Co-Founder, ellexx; award-winning business journalist, economist and co-author of Close the Gaps

[Investor — TBC] — Investor perspective on gender-lens finance, fintech and scaling women-focused financial solutions

Audrey Selian — Director, Artha Impact, Rianta Capital / Impact for Breakfast — Moderator

Who Should Attend:

Impact and commercial investors, gender-lens and fintech funds, family offices, foundations, pension and wealth professionals, founders and ecosystem builders interested in women’s financial power as a driver of both wealth creation and impact.

We look forward to seeing you there!