Announcer: World's first Gender Smart Investing Summit takes place in London

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The world’s first pioneering Gender Smart Investing Summit has launched in London. As latest figures reveal, the movement of gender smart capital has grown exponentially since 2017, global thought leaders are uniting to tip the scales in the fight for equality.

Thursday, 1 November 2018 marks the first ever Gender Smart Investing Summit, where venture capitalists, asset managers, institutional investors, NGOs and entrepreneurs from around the world came together to examine how more capital can be channelled to accelerate positive change towards one of the most critical social issues of our time: achieving gender equality, globally.

The Gender Smart Investing Summit is taking place in London, and 2018 data will be released from the US Social Investment Forum, Veris Wealth Partners, Wharton Social Impact Initiative, and Catalyst at Large, each of which give a landscape analysis of investments being made in public and private markets globally.

Read the full release on the UN Capital Development Fund website