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Only 6.2 percent of the new funds launched in the past 12 months were assigned to a female manager.

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[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm generally opposed to the majority activity of the finance industry over at least the last century which is responsible for significantly more damage to society and individuals than all serial killers combined. Fund management, while not necessarily directly involved in those particular arrangements, directly represent and support the institutions responsible for those arrangements. Responsibility is of course very vague since the goal of those participating in the finance industry is to profit rather than to cause harm; it's just the nature of large investment which incentivizes a kind of ruthlessness in business which has caused a number of discrete tragedies as well as many ongoing issues which could possibly wipe out the majority of humans.

Edit: Got my wires crossed. I was thinking of Brokers rather than Fund Managers. I have much less of an issue with small scale finance and those kinds of funds for small and moderately sized businesses. Still room for bad behavior but I wouldn't now make a blanket denunciation as I made above.